Server Move Complete (forwarded message)

Please note forwarded message from Drakino:

In reply to:

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The server move is complete, and seems to be running fine. Unfortunatly some DNS servers aren't listening to the time to live setting of the domain properly, so it may take some time to get everyone back (including me here at work, grr).

One side effect of the move is that the time zone changed. There was no way to fix the time offset for everyone, so if you had this set on your own to match local time, it will need to be changed. To chenage the actual setting, head into "My Home" and edit the display preferences. Use the "Adjusted Time" on the front page to know when the BBS time matches your local time.

If anyone has any problems or questions, feel free to use the "Email BBS Admin" link at the bottom.

Hopefully my work DNS will let me get here shortly, posting via lynx from the server failed.

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Of course shortly after asking this to be posted, I remembered a workaround to my DNS problem. We have multiple proxies, I simply switched over to another one to get here again.

I too had DNS problems....I tried surfing the BBS on a SSH telnet session with Lynx over a high latency satellite connection. It worked, but left a little to be desired. I finally just changed my DNS servers to point to the ones at my previous company since I still know the IP addresses. Paydirt!

Yeah, I'm here by putting an entry for the server in my hosts file... You could put that in the message on riocar.org for us addicts who had to find another DNS server to get the new address because all of our local ones had it cached for some reason...

Congrats on the move, everything seems to have gone very well, and that's not always easy...

Matthew

I'm sort of confused on how it works I think. Why is it that my DNS change was seemingly instant? I posted something to the board, and the next thing I know, there's a message saying the board was being moved, which I assume was on the new server. 10 minutes later or so the board was up again!

Why is it that my DNS change was seemingly instant?

Because your ISP has a properly-configured DNS server. Some people don't have that luxury.

And some of us run our own damn DNS servers to avoid the crappy-ass ones most ISPs provide.

Kewl. For a moment earlier I thought it was down for good when PaulH's page loaded instead. Thanks for taking over hosting.


Regards,
Aragon

I noticed no problems. Hadn't even realized the board had moved until I saw posts on it. Of course, I don't think I was on at the time it was being moved, either. (When was that?)

I tried at about 17:00 GMT (12 July).


Regards,
Aragon