Is it just me?

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When I type in www.thefiringline.com I get a Taiwan trading site.
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But I found another door here
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Yep, I get it too.

I think that TFL's old server must have sold TFL's old IP already.

Why do I have this strange feeling of deja vu?
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"Are you taking any prescription medication" famous line spoken by Dustin Hoffman in Rainman. :p Hi Sandy, hope your feeling better ;)
 
When any site changes IP addresses, the DNS (Domain Name System) servers all around the world have to be updated. The process of updating takes some time and some are updated before others. So some people who are using an updated DNS server will be able to find the site at its new location, while others will be using a non-updated DNS server and won't be able to find it.

Updating all the DNS servers around the world usually takes under a day, so the problem will probably be short-lived.
 
Thanks for articulating what I don't even comprehend, moonshadow. :)

Welcome to The Firing Line....pull up a chair....ummm, not that one; the Taiwanese have reposessed it. The couch? Umm, it was here a minute ago. Honest.
Rich
 
Actually, the truth is that TFL has been a fabulously successful financial venture for Rich et al, and they are using TFL to buy Taiwan! But, shhhhhhh ... this is very 'hush, hush'. ;)
 
Gary...
Really??!!! Gads, well, there is always a need for.....nevermind ;)

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Rich, I gotta tell you ... when that Taiwan.com site came up, all I could think of was ... here it is Friday night, I'm ready to visit on TFL for a while and what do I get? Taiwan.com? WHAT? IF I GET MY HANDS ON THAT RICH LUCIBELLA, I'M GONNA WRING HIS NECK!! AND THAT GOES FOR THE REST OF 'EM TOO!

The wife and dog left for outdoors. Then I logged out, drank, oops! sorry, took one medication and counted to 3 million to give the Killian's, ah, medication time to take effect and then logged back on in a better frame of mind. You just don't know how close you came that time! Oooooh, boy!

[This message has been edited by sensop (edited March 31, 2000).]

Is there some goofy gas on TFL tonight, or is it just me? Ooooo. What a coincidence. See Topic title.

[This message has been edited by sensop (edited March 31, 2000).]
 
Hmmm... You have been a bit giddy, tonight, Sensop! :)

I've been lucky-- my ISP picked up on it, raht kwik! Even so, a Sam Adams went well with the nachos whilest I read this stuff.

Of course, this is with all the guns put away. ;)
 
I got the Taiwan page to. Thought it was a Klintonian censor attack :D

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OK, is this way off?

Nearest I can tell, WE use the word "thefiringline.com" to remember the URL of the website, but the actual address (the "real" URL) is that numerical code you get sometimes. Your DNS server is the machine that has both the "alias" (thefiringline) and the "real URL" (buncha numbers and gobbledygook) stored and matched, so when you type in the alias it matches it with the real URL.
Now, when TFL changed servers, the alias stayed the same (thefiringline.com) but the actual URL that the DNS server uses to find it changed. So when you'd type in thefiringline.com, the DNS server would take you to the old URL, which had been sold to someone else, until the DNS server gets the word to update the real URL.

Is that close?
 
um,
Spark may want to delete 216.199.11.135 from his hosts file. DNS uses a procedure called reverse lookup, essentially what it says, it reverses the ip address to resolve host names.

Not a big deal, but it will cause anomolies in address resolution for a short while if the primary DNS (Mike and Spark's) is behind a very tightly locked down firewall. The port (can't remember which one off the top of my head) needs to be open for write access, or changes must be made manually.

If you do a <control> O or a start, run and type in 216.199.11.135 it takes you to the still (un)registered TFL screen.

Don,
Pretty close to spot on.

[This message has been edited by RAE (edited April 02, 2000).]
 
Hey hardball, that's my line! ;)

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Don:

Like RAE said, you've pretty much got it.

The engineer in me is compelled to point out one minor quibble: The URL is the words and stuff (http://www.thefiringline.com), and the numbers (216.157.75.35 for TFL) are the IP (Internet Protocol) address.

There are many DNS servers on the Net that "resolve" a URL to the IP. When a site changes it's IP address, like TFL did when it changed servers, it takes a while for all the DNS servers at all the ISP's (Internet Service Providers) to pick up the fact that the IP associated with the URL has changed.
 
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