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World AW IP Change, and AWMapper down. // CommunitybastillionMay 27, 2003, 11:11pm
(Cross posted to Community and General.Discussion)
Well.. that was an unexpected annoyance... Apparently, they moved the World AW to a new server sometime today, and the IP address changed for it. Why does this concern me? My firewall software wouldn't let me connect to world AW.. but it did let me into AWGate. I had to find the new addy, adjust my firewall.. not really that hard to do, but would have been nice of AW to let us know that they were doing to do that! :) And.. in the process of doing that... apparently they have taken down the AWmapper.. http://mapper.activeworlds.com only returns DNS errors now. :-P Nice of them to let us know they would do that too.. and they really need to change their website now as well.. since they still have it linked there. Bastillion The Bastion (aw 1206n 7750w) www.geocities.com/basti_02/index.html kahMay 28, 2003, 2:34pm
"bastillion" <bastillion at charter.net> wrote in
news:3ed40cda$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com: > Apparently, they moved the World AW to a new server sometime today, > and the IP address changed for it. > Why does this concern me? > > My firewall software wouldn't let me connect to world AW.. but it did > let me into AWGate. > > I had to find the new addy, adjust my firewall.. not really that hard > to do, but would have been nice of AW to let us know that they were > doing to do that! :) It's quite normal for servers to change their IP address, that's why you have the DNS system. You obviously use completely insane firewall rules, so you do not have grounds to complain about anything. Give them a day or two to fix DNS problems and move everything (the mapper stuff takes up a lot of space, you know). KAH jermeMay 28, 2003, 7:21pm
DNS does not always take time to update.
A DNS record has a "TTL" (a Time To Live). This is how long it will persist in the cache of other DNS servers. This value can be anything from 1 second to several weeks. Smaller values increase the load on your DNS server (obviously more lookups are needed), but smaller values also allow you to update and switch IP addresses more quickly. -Jeremy -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jeremy Booker - Owner / Webmaster JTech Web Systems www.JTechWebSystems.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." -Mathew 5:34 [View Quote] psytekMay 29, 2003, 5:13am
And speaking of the AW Mapper ... for the last 6+ months, the last entry in
Mapper News read something like, "Still waiting for prop-dump from AW ... " Any hope in sight on that one? Just Curious :) PsyTek. [View Quote] psytekMay 29, 2003, 5:13am
Speaking of the AW Mapper ... the last entry in Mappre News was over 6
months ago, and read something like, "still waiting for AW prop-dump for quarterly update" :) Any light on this one? Cheers! PsyTek. [View Quote] syntaxMay 29, 2003, 9:13pm
It's a freakin' disk space problem on AWI's part. :-o
Like...come one guys. -- - Syntax - http://www.swcity.net http://forum.swcity.net [View Quote] |