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Title: Amigaworld status ?
Post by: BCP on February 01, 2017, 12:46:52 AM
Since Sunday afternoon, I have been getting the following response when trying to go to Amigaworld.net.

Unable to open 'http://www.amigaworld.net/'
ERROR 7 Couldn't connect to server.

This happens with Odyssey on OS4 & with Edge on Windows 10.  My provider is AT&T.  Anyone have any ideas as to what the problem is?

Thanks,
BCP
Title: Re: Amigaworld status ?
Post by: Oldsmobile_Mike on February 01, 2017, 12:55:08 AM
http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/amigaworld.net.html
Title: Re: Amigaworld status ?
Post by: BCP on February 01, 2017, 01:31:01 AM
Quote from: Oldsmobile_Mike;821226
http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/amigaworld.net.html


Thanks,  usefull site to know about.
Title: Re: Amigaworld status ?
Post by: broadblues on February 01, 2017, 02:08:59 AM
There is some strange kind of DNS issue, amigaworld.net (an subdomans) are resolving to 127.0.0.1 thus failing to connect to the amigaworld server.

The server is actually up and running but only accessable via the ip address.
Title: Re: Amigaworld status ?
Post by: zipper on February 01, 2017, 12:05:27 PM
Strange hiccups, 5 mins ago couldn't connect, just now available. It's the DNS side, via IP I always could reach them.
Title: Re: Amigaworld status ?
Post by: sundown on February 02, 2017, 06:43:08 PM
Still down, guess nobody gives a crap.
Title: Re: Amigaworld status ?
Post by: zipper on February 02, 2017, 07:43:24 PM
Nobody bothers to inform Tomazkid - he is probably the lone maintainer who cares about it.
Title: Re: Amigaworld status ?
Post by: kolla on February 02, 2017, 10:41:26 PM
Quote from: broadblues;821233
There is some strange kind of DNS issue, amigaworld.net (an subdomans) are resolving to 127.0.0.1 thus failing to connect to the amigaworld server.

It is not "some strange kind of DNS issue", whoever is managing the zone file is clueless and does not take advice.
Title: Re: Amigaworld status ?
Post by: Pat the Cat on February 02, 2017, 10:58:40 PM
This is very much speculation - it could be because the site hosts Amistore.

One side effect might be, to make the Amistoe link usable, the main trunk of the site is coded to be Amistore friendly, but ends up being DNS unfriendly.

Just a thought, but it could explain the issue - you have to enter true IP address or it just doesn't work.
Title: Re: Amigaworld status ?
Post by: darkage on February 02, 2017, 11:01:21 PM
Its working fine here from Australia at the moment using the FQDN.
Title: Re: Amigaworld status ?
Post by: BCP on February 03, 2017, 12:19:01 AM
Well, its still not working here in the U.S.   Its rather strange that there is no announcement from Aeon or Amigakit representatives....
Title: Re: Amigaworld status ?
Post by: darkage on February 03, 2017, 04:40:18 AM
ok I see what everyone means now.   Its now not working for me and DNS resolves to localhost.    it was working a few hours ago for a short while
Title: Re: Amigaworld status ?
Post by: kolla on February 03, 2017, 09:31:57 AM
The publishing name servers for the zone are not in sync, and all TTL values are whack (5 minutes for all records, including NS records???). looks like the buddyns.com servers are unable to transfer updates from ns1.amigaworld.net, or they simply refuse to (I would, with those values).
Title: Re: Amigaworld status ?
Post by: ToddH on February 03, 2017, 10:26:55 PM
Working fine for me and I'm in the U.S.
Title: Re: Amigaworld status ?
Post by: BozzerBigD on February 04, 2017, 12:54:17 AM
@ToddH

There's definitely a problem with the DNS system with it only connecting to the correct IP intermittently. Direct connection via the correct IP code, 85.25.152.36 works fine. I've had to manually amend my hosts file in order to get it to connect to Amigaworld.net reliably at home!!! Needs must, but it's a shame the moderators aren't on top of this :(

We've discussed it on Amigaworld here:

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=41597&forum=7
Title: Re: Amigaworld status ?
Post by: ToddH on February 04, 2017, 01:13:52 AM
Quote from: BozzerBigD;821489
@ToddH

There's definitely a problem with the DNS system with it only connecting to the correct IP intermittently. Direct connection via the correct IP code, 85.25.152.36 works fine. I've had to manually amend my hosts file in order to get it to connect to Amigaworld.net reliably at home!!! Needs must, but it's a shame the moderators aren't on top of this :(

We've discussed it on Amigaworld here:

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=41597&forum=7

Oh I've no doubt it is having issues but for me it is working reliably. Not sure why but I rarely visit there and prefer amiga.org anyway.
Title: Re: Amigaworld status ?
Post by: kolla on February 04, 2017, 09:07:18 AM
amigaworld.net has 3 NS records, of which only one serves correct IP address. If your resolver decides to ask that one, it will answer you correct IP address for a while, if your resolver asks any of the other, it will answer wrong IP address for a while.