[78-L] Fixing the 'No Saturday Delivery problem may take 24 hours

[David Lennick]

Or less..MANY messages from Saturday and Sunday, plus their repeats and 
"where's my message" e-mails arrived this morning. As always, many thanks to 
Ron (and put away those Swedish Linguaphones, you won't need them, you cunning 
linguists out there).

dl

On 9/5/2011 2:41 AM, Ron Fial wrote:
> Various members pointed that lots of mail was sent Saturday, then people got 'message delivery delayed', etc.
> Thanks to Mike Biel, Donna Halper, David Lennick, Mark Bardenwerper, Dave Lewis et. al. who put me on the right track.
>
> Tonight I figured out the problem.   I should have checked more than one DNS server last night.
>
> 78-L uses a fast, worldwide DNS service called EasyDns.com
>
> The bill for renewal of the service wound up in my 'junk mailbox', so the service
> expired.   But not completely, one server (ns1.easydns.com) still has the 78online.com
>     records.   The other servers, ns2.easydns.com, etc, do not.
> I just paid the bill, things should go back to normal, but it could take 24 hours.
>
>
> Meanwhile, you can get to the 78-L web server with this address in your web browser:
>        http://64.62.25.246
>
> Your email server may not be able to send email to the list until the DNS
>    servers on the Internet are updated (can take 24 hours).  It depends on which DNS
>    server your ISP happens to use (luck of the draw).  If your mail reached the list today
> (Sunday) then your ISP is using ns1.easydns.com.  Likewise the www.78online.com web pages.
>
> My apologies for the messup.  More info for computer geeks below.
>
>    Regards,
>    Ron Fial    78-L list manager
> ________________________________________________________________________________
>
> Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
> Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>
> C:\Users\ron>nslookup<---  nslookup program can be used to test your DNS lookups
> Default Server:  14.sub-66-174-92.myvzw.com
> Address:  66.174.92.14
>
>> server ns1.easydns.com<--use this DNS server
> Default Server:  ns1.easydns.com
> Address:  64.68.192.10
>
>> www.78online.com<---find this IP address
> Server:  ns1.easydns.com
> Address:  64.68.192.10
>
> Name:    klickitat.78online.com<---- finds it OK
> Address:  64.62.25.246
> Aliases:  www.78online.com
>
>> server ns2.easydns.com<-- use this Otherr DNS sever
> Default Server:  ns2.easydns.com
> Address:  72.52.2.1
>
>> www.78online.com<--- Try finding this IP address again
> Server:  ns2.easydns.com
> Address:  72.52.2.1
>
> *** ns2.easydns.com can't find www.78online.com: Server failed<---OOPS, it does not know about 78online.com
>> exit
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