Is someone trying to hijack priuschat.com?

Hi moderators, you may want to investigate...

I can't get to PruisChat. Going to http://www.priuschat.com/ from any computer here at home (my ISP is Comcast) gives me:


This domain has just been registered for one of our customers!
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My bookmarks to pages within PriusChat are giving me 404 Not Found errors. I can get to all other web sites I've tried.

When I "remote desktop" into my computer at work I *can* get to PriusChat. (that's what I'm using now). But all of my machines at home get the above message.

Is this some kind of weired DNS snafu, or do you think it's something more nefarious?

(I guess if this is happening to other Comcast subscribers you probably won't hear about it until they can get through)

Curious in Seattle.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(paulccullen @ Apr 11 2007, 08:51 PM) [snapback]421941[/snapback]</div>

This was happening to me this morning on a university network connection, so it's not Comcast specific.

Thursday morning. It's working now. Weird!

It kinda looked like Danny switched providers. If so it may take a while for the DNS changes to propagate throughout all the ISPs DNS servers. If this is what happened every thing should clear up in a few days.

Twice on GreenHybrid I've said PC is alive and well.

I have periodic problems accessing PC, but have learned from experience to just be patient. Usually things clear up in an hour or two, occasionally it takes a day.

I admit it can be hard on my addiction, but what can I do ?

GO Danny !

Yeah I saw the same thing, but have learned patience here as well. I do need my fix though, so I'm glad to see it was nothing serious

Thanks Danny.

My ISP ( Road Runner ) still has not updated their DNS. :angry: For a quick work around you can use OpenDNS. Info on how to set it up is at http://www.opendns.com

OpenDNS seems to be pretty quick on updating their DNS servers.

Would that also be related to the SQL errors I had the other day? Too many connections errors.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ACD @ Apr 12 2007, 04:10 PM) [snapback]422226[/snapback]</div>

I was getting different SQL errors today too. I guessed Danny was still working on it. (Trying to maintain a system that's ostensibly available 24/7 has gotta be tricky)

BTW: This is weird (just a result of the DNS change, I guess). I can HTTP to priuschat.com and get in OK. I can PING priuschat.com. But if I HTTP with the IP address from the PING I get that "This domain has just been registered for one of our customers!" message. It's as if PING and HTTP are using different DNS servers, at least for me.

http://priuschat.com --> The normal PriusChat site
ping priuschat.com --> 217.160.244.70
http://217.160.244.70 --> "This domain has just been registered..."

* The less you know... :huh:

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(theforce @ Apr 12 2007, 06:23 PM) [snapback]422206[/snapback]</div>

I am still getting SQL errors today, even after the IP switch. The DNS and SQL problems are not directly related, but if Danny moved to a server with more SQL horsepower, then it will help.

Tom

Comcast has had DNS issues.

Comcast changed their DNS servers in my area and didn't notify anyone. The new numbers they gave me are 207.5.171.1 and 207.5.144.254 so if anyone has the old numbers... (207.5.128.9 and 207.5.128.10) you should change them to the new ones.

I've typically gotten "too many connections" sort of SQL errors. The board software uses PHP persistent connections which can be problematic if the code is written poorly. If PC runs on a dedicated SQL box it should be fine. If it's shared then another site that uses pconnect badly could hose up all the sites that point to that particular MySQL server. Generally though, the site's pretty stable.

Occasionally, an ISP will have more than one DNS cache, so you can sometimes get differing results.

Windows XP also "stupidly" caches DNS information; it is supposed to only cache negative DNS info for 5 minutes and positive info for 24 hours, but I have had many clients where the DNS info is cached much longer. And in this case, the stored DNS info for www.priuschat.com isn't a negative entry ... its the landing page we were seeing, so some people may have problems for quite a while!

If you know anyone who still cannot connect with PC, have them flush the local DNS cache by using Start * Run, then type IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS in the box and press "OK". For the brave of heart, there are instructions on a registry tweak to not store negative entries and another one to cause the DNS info stored locally to be refreshed every 4 hours, matching what most ISPs now use, at http://www.updatexp.com/dns-windows-xp.html

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(paulccullen @ Apr 12 2007, 06:41 PM) [snapback]422249[/snapback]</div>

Some servers, like one that I built and use for company based systems use what is called host based access that uses a single IP address for several different sites, it looks at the whole name and directs the traffic to the folder that is bound to that name. If I just put the IP in I will get the same error, but the full name takes me right to my site. I have 10 different web interfaces on one server using a single IP address.