Internet Rulers Screwing With The Revolution! Shuts Down Sabrin / Lew Rockwell?

[Liberté]

Most likely it is nothing more than a spike in bandwidth and GA shut down the site, who knows what the contracts say and don't, with all that small print. But it is worth keeping an eye on it...

 

[acptulsa]

Most likely it is nothing more than a spike in bandwidth and GA shut down the site, who knows what the contracts say and don't, with all that small print. But it is worth keeping an eye on it...

You can always count on this one. "Nothing to see here, folks, move along now..."

 

[rvkpa]

But changes in DNS records are not immediate. Servers cache DNS records. For instance, if I change my record today it might not register for everyone until sunday night or something like that. In theory it makes sense that someone could play with the name servers, but isn't the hosting provider responsible for their own name servers not the registrar?

 

[Minnesota Chris]

Hostway DNS was the problem

Someone on this forum tested one of the DNS servers handling the murraysabrin.com account (A.DNS.HOSTWAY.NET) during the outage, and the nslookup failed. Based on that information, it appears the DNS entries weren't handled correctly on Hostway's side, and had nothing to do with the much maligned Network Solutions.

 

[Minnesota Chris]

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[sidster]

But changes in DNS records are not immediate. Servers cache DNS records. For instance, if I change my record today it might not register for everyone until sunday night or something like that. In theory it makes sense that someone could play with the name servers, but isn't the hosting provider responsible for their own name servers not the registrar?

Not quite. DNS servers won't cache data until they are looked up first.
Meaning, if I lookup abc.com today and say their DNS records allow a
cache of 1 day, and that record was changed after my lookup, my cache
would be stale for the next 24hrs. But, if they changed their entry 1 minute
before I had performed the lookup, my cache would be fresh and reflect
their changes.