Re: [Pgbuildfarm-members] cannot find www.pgbuildfarm.org

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Steve Atkins wrote:

> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:10:11 -0700
> From: Steve Atkins <steve(at)blighty(dot)com>
> To: PGBuildFarm <pgbuildfarm-members(at)pgfoundry(dot)org>
> Subject: Re: [Pgbuildfarm-members] cannot find www.pgbuildfarm.org
>
>
> On Oct 22, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> > Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >> Jeremy Drake wrote:
> >>> My buildfarm scripts are failing with an error about not being
> >>> able to
> >>> find www.pgbuildfarm.org, and I cannot go there in my web browser
> >>> either.
> >>> I tried to ping it from a completely different setup and it also
> >>> cannot
> >>> resolve www.pgbuildfarm.org.
> >>>
> >>
> >> This was resolved early this morning. However propagation is taking
> >> longer than normal. We are not sure what is causing the long
> >> rebound on
> >> the DNS but the original problem was due to a domain expiration
> >> (which
> >> has been dealt with). I also noticed (verified by more than one
> >> source)
> >> that we were incapable of using whois with .info and .org domains
> >> for a
> >> while this morning.
> >>
> >> I think there are a couple of things resolving themselves at this
> >> time ;)
> >>
> >
> >
> > This still seems to be an issue. It's very unfortunate to have that
> > happening at this time in the release cycle.
> >
> > The only good news is that the buildfarm script won't set the
> > success flag
> > unless the web transaction works.
>
> It's an issue at the registrar, not a DNS problem. discountdomains
> still have
> it set to "client hold", and until that's cleared the authoritative
> nameservers
> won't be pushed to the .org root over at ultra.
>
> I normally wouldn't suggest this, as it's a recipe for DNS pain, but if
> you add the line "207.173.203.146 www.pgbuildfarm.org" to your hosts
> file you'll have access again. But, if you do that, be very, very, VERY
> sure to remove it again once things are resolved.
Good idea! Done!
Could we have a note when every thing's back to normal so that we don't
forget to remove the /etc/host line...?
Heck! I'm getting old and easily forget this sort of thing
>
> I doubt there's anything anyone but Joshua can do to kick things
> along, but I'm a tucows reseller and a dns geek, and if I can be of
> any help
> I'd be happy to do stuff.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
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