Ooops! My domains are all down!

Pagan · 2009-05-25, 03:37 PM

update - eroticove.com and lezzietown.com are being loaded right now onto a different host. rearentrylovers.com is already working in some areas. Just holding on domain name propagation. Thanks for your patience, everyone!

nate · 2009-05-25, 05:54 PM

This isnt much help right now, but going forward you might want to sepererate your nameservers from your hosts. That will allow you to just change IP adresses to the new host instead of waiting until your registrar transfers control of the DNS to the new host, then waiting while the hosts DNS propagates throughout the intertubes.

I will handily recommend using nothing but afraid.org for nameservers. It gives you utter and complete control over where your domain names point, the interface is easy to use and they resolve really quick.

Further, afraid.org is one of the genuinely free services available on the internet that hasnt turned into a spam-o-rama, and is exactly the same as it was around 1999 when I built my first naked teenager site. The guy that runs it does it because he wants to, not because he's a greedy dick of a corporation trying to angle in on a nickle or dime here and there.

I can move a domain and it will resolve to the new servers in about a half hour from the minute I decide to make the move. If its a new domain, it will resolve in 5 minutes from my experience.

Also, you can add or delete secondary nameservers as often as you see fit.

LD · 2009-05-26, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by nate

I can move a domain and it will resolve to the new servers in about a half hour from the minute I decide to make the move. If its a new domain, it will resolve in 5 minutes from my experience.

Also, you can add or delete secondary nameservers as often as you see fit.

I've always wondered how much affect the nameserver has on the time it takes to resolve. I haven't done enough transfers to really know for sure, but GoDaddy seems to take much longer than Namecheap, from my very limited experience. I didn't know that was something the nameserver had any control over.

euphline · 2009-05-26, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by LusciousDelight

I've always wondered how much affect the nameserver has on the time it takes to resolve. I haven't done enough transfers to really know for sure, but GoDaddy seems to take much longer than Namecheap, from my very limited experience. I didn't know that was something the nameserver had any control over.

When a surfer clicks on a link to, say, pornurl.org, the following occurs:

The surfer's computer checks its hosts file. Is there an entry there? Of course, there rarely is.
The surfer's computer then checks with its DNS server as defined in its network settings.
The DNS server checks to see if it is authoritative for the domain. If so, it provides the data. Of course, this is also rarely the case. (It would only be the case if your surfer's DNS server happened to be that of the company hosting your domain. For practical purposes, this just doesn't happen).
If the server is not authoritative, it determine if it has data cached for the given domain. If you've ever wondered about those TTL, Refresh, Expires, etc. settings for your DNS, those control this behavior. While we like to set short refresh values, so that hosting changes propagate immediately, you should keep in mind that if you have a longer value, DNS servers can cache the data longer, meaning they're more likely to be able to give a response right here ... without going through additional steps.
If the server is not authoritative and has no data cached, then it looks for the name server for the top level domain (.com, .net, .org, .us, etc.). It queries this server for the name servers of your domain. The root server replies, providing your domain's DNS servers IP addresses.
The server contacts your DNS server, requesting the IP address of your site. If your first server fails to respond, it should contact additional servers whose addresses were provided in the previous step.
The server returns the IP address to you.

You'll notice that nowhere in here is your *registrar* contacted... unless they happen to be providing your DNS for you. The only role your registrar plays is in updating the root server with the correct IP addresses of your DNS servers. If this changes, and your registrar is slow, it will take longer for the changes to propagate, but there's no impact on live queries.

Hope this helps.

-jbn

2009-05-25, 03:37 PM	#1
Pagan Perverted Empress Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 5,069	update - eroticove.com and lezzietown.com are being loaded right now onto a different host. rearentrylovers.com is already working in some areas. Just holding on domain name propagation. Thanks for your patience, everyone! __________________ Is it naptime yet?

2009-05-25, 05:54 PM	#2
nate I can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Merica! Posts: 543	This isnt much help right now, but going forward you might want to sepererate your nameservers from your hosts. That will allow you to just change IP adresses to the new host instead of waiting until your registrar transfers control of the DNS to the new host, then waiting while the hosts DNS propagates throughout the intertubes. I will handily recommend using nothing but afraid.org for nameservers. It gives you utter and complete control over where your domain names point, the interface is easy to use and they resolve really quick. Further, afraid.org is one of the genuinely free services available on the internet that hasnt turned into a spam-o-rama, and is exactly the same as it was around 1999 when I built my first naked teenager site. The guy that runs it does it because he wants to, not because he's a greedy dick of a corporation trying to angle in on a nickle or dime here and there. I can move a domain and it will resolve to the new servers in about a half hour from the minute I decide to make the move. If its a new domain, it will resolve in 5 minutes from my experience. Also, you can add or delete secondary nameservers as often as you see fit. __________________ Its just a jump to the left.