In 24-36 hours, the problems with the quotes website should be resolved. I thought it was Comcast’s problem, but before I called them, I took a look at my Network Solutions registry and ended up finding the real problem. The primary DNS server for the morlok.net domain was dns.morlok.net (70.89.203.89) but the 2nd and 3rd servers were set to gofast. Those remaining entries must not have been transitioned when I setup my own DNS hosting. Anyway, corrected the entries so that only my primary DNS server and my secondary DNS server (dns2.morlok.net — 70.89.203.90) are listed. For whatever reason, people on Comcast must have been having problems getting to the primary DNS server, and then they would have been sent to the backup. Or else there was some sort of situation when a Comcast DNS was caching things from when it couldn’t reach the server (perhaps due to the recent internet outage on my parent’s house) and that was causing the problem. Anyway, after the DNS cache clears itself, the problem should be resolved.
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007Quotes website weirdness
Monday, January 8th, 2007I’ve been receiving some complaints lately that the quotes website hasn’t been working. I’m pretty sure it’s a DNS problem that’s actually coming from Comcast. Everyone who has complained has been using Comcast, and even during supposed outages, I’ve been able to get to it from my home in Illinois, from UIUC and from UMN. Brogs sent me the following information from Comcast during the last outage:
%> Dig quotes.morlok.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER< <- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 10793
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;quotes.morlok.net. IN ANY
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
morlok.net. 75 IN SOA ns.gofast.net. hostmaster.gofast.net. 2005122301 86400 7200 604800 900
;; Query time: 38 msec
;; SERVER: 68.87.77.130#53(68.87.77.130)
;; WHEN: Mon Jan 8 00:04:30 2007
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 92
Comcast is trying to do the lookup with gofast, our old ISP which we no longer use. Later, within the conversation, he got the following info:
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER< <- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 20160
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;quotes.morlok.net. IN ANY
;; ANSWER SECTION:
quotes.morlok.net. 604800 IN A 70.89.203.89
;; Query time: 74 msec
;; SERVER: 68.87.77.130#53(68.87.77.130)
;; WHEN: Mon Jan 8 00:16:35 2007
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 51
So the problem is intermittent. If you have problems, you can always try http://www.morlok.net/quotes but I’ve heard that can have problems with links. If anyone else experiences problems, please let me know as I’d like to get on Comcast’s case for this.
The Quotemaster Returns!
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007After much harrassing, Shanley has resumed his role as quotemaster. You can check out his new quotes website at:
Firefox 2 released
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006If you haven’t already, download it here.
It’s Official
Thursday, October 12th, 2006My diploma arrived at my parents house a couple days ago. That puts the finishing touches on this thing I like to call my master’s degree. They can’t take it back now. Ha! Suckers…
Twins win AL Central
Sunday, October 1st, 2006Despite not showing their best stuff in the last series of the seaon against the White Sox, the Twins managed to win the AL central title over Detroit. The Twins won the last of the three game series with Chicago this afternoon, and then stuck around to watch the Tigers/Royals game. The Royals made an incredible 3-run comeback to beat Detroit in 12 innings, which pushed the Twins to clinch the AL Central title. Read more about it all here.
On another up note, Joe Mauer won the MLB batting title with an average of .347. He edged out Jeter and Sanchez to become the first AL catcher to ever win the title.
Katy launches into the Blogosphere
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006After frequent complaints that my blog was “too boring” with “boring .NET stuff,” my wife Katy has decided to show me how it’s done. She has launched here new blog: http://www.morlok.net/katy/ Since its launch 5 minutes ago, the frequency of the word ‘Puma’ has tripled on the internet.
New version of gallery
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006I upgraded gallery this afternoon to gallery2 and things are pretty much finished. I had to mod one of the themes slightly, and I’m still not completely happy with it, but things are fairly usable now. I’m not going to alias http://www.morlok.net/gallery to the new site (http://www.morlok.net/gallery2) just yet, until I check to see how this is going to affect the pictures on my photo tributes. The interface, with the current theme, is nice, but I’m sure I’ll be tweaking it more in the future.
Be aware, it may be a little slow to show the thumbnails at first. Not all of the thumbnails were re-generated after my import from the old gallery. After they’ve been viewed by someone once, things will be much faster.
Also, there were a few problems when importing pictures from my old gallery. Currently, the only pictures that I’m aware of that aren’t there now is the full collection of pictures from Dusty and Laura’s wedding. I’ll work to get that on there in the next few days.
My Calendar
Thursday, August 31st, 2006I’ve done some house cleaning regarding my online calendars. Following my graduation this summer, the CSGSO and School calendars were no longer relevant. My web calendar viewer has been updated, but anyone subscribing to my iCal files directly may encounter some errors as I’ve remove the appropriate files. My current ics files are as follows:
New Comment Spam Plugin Installed
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006After working with Dusty today to try to get his comments to be allowed without moderation, I just broke down and installed a new plugin to handle spam filtering. Before a comment is accepted, everyone is now required to fill out a field that asks a simple math question, such as “Please add 7 and 6″. In order to make the system accessible to all my readers, I’ve signed Steve up with a tutor to help him with his addition skills.