The last DNS server in the world
Apparently, my office internet connection is sitting right behind the very last DNS server in world. Changes I made yesterday morning, finally just took effect sometime mid-morning today. Everyone updates before our server, and I mean everyone. I believe our server finally got it’s information from a machine in a remote siberian mining camp when someone dialed in to get their email.
What that meant is that last night when i went to bed, everything was looking great from my house. But this morning when I innocently went to check something trivial, i found my server completely out of whack. Broken links, time outs… weird “too many redirets messages.” It wasn’t pretty. My first thought was that the guys trying to get my webserver to connect to my mailserver (sitting at another provider) had messed something up big time.
We chased this and that around all morning until I finally realized that for me squeg.com was getting redirected the old server which was redirecting to the new server which was redirecting to the old server… Not good. But apparently, I, within the twilight-zone confines of my office, was the only experiencing the problem.
Tech support was very patient with me.
Which brings me to me point. Transitioning from godaddy.com to jaguarpc.com has not been painless, but the guys in the support trenches have already proved themselves to be infinitely more responsive and capable.
So Brandon, Alex, Les, Philip, and whoever else may have been working to make things right, thanks guys. I owe you one.