TwinkInfo site not accessible!!

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How many of you are having problems accessing this site? Apparently it works for some people but not others. It seems the doomain registration has expired. " Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2014-02-21 19:36:45 " Very strange, that if this is the cause that it's still there for one browser but not another browser. The only way I've found to still have access without dl google chrome, is by using a proxy server. I use hidemyass which works but causes some problems. There is another thread about this issue here: Forum TwinkInfo.com Support Bugs and Issues DNS lookup failure I would encourage everyone who's having problems because of this to let it be known there and perhaps other places so some effort is made to fix the issue. If you had to use your phone or something like that to be able to use twinkinfo please add a reply.
 
Alright I'll take a stab in the dark here. First off welcome back TI lol. It's funny there was a post a few weeks back about "What is TI Worth" so I went poking around with a WHOIS and saw the site was expiring in a few days and thought, hmm that's weird. Next thing I knew, it was down lol

As to why some browser's work and some don't; it's possible that when they lost their rights to the domain they also lost their public facing IP. If the site is controlled by some website server hosting company they might own a block of IPs and issue them as needed. When TI went down that IP went back into the pile. When it came back up a week later they were issued a new IP. Some browser's might be pulling a cached DNS entry with the old IP and not resolving to anything. And Chrome might be querying it's ISP DNS servers and pulling the correct new one. But that's just a guess. Either way you should be able to get it it by entering 216.70.98.61
 
Hashbrowns said:
Alright I'll take a stab in the dark here. First off welcome back TI lol. It's funny there was a post a few weeks back about "What is TI Worth" so I went poking around with a WHOIS and saw the site was expiring in a few days and thought, hmm that's weird. Next thing I knew, it was down lol

As to why some browser's work and some don't; it's possible that when they lost their rights to the domain they also lost their public facing IP. If the site is controlled by some website server hosting company they might own a block of IPs and issue them as needed. When TI went down that IP went back into the pile. When it came back up a week later they were issued a new IP. Some browser's might be pulling a cached DNS entry with the old IP and not resolving to anything. And Chrome might be querying it's ISP DNS servers and pulling the correct new one. But that's just a guess. Either way you should be able to get it it by entering 216.70.98.61
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Well entering the numeric IP in the address bar definitely doesn't work. Here's proof if you want it- Screenshot by Lightshot. I'll quote someone else as to why
"(ii) This doesn`t work because of reasons, mostly because there are multiple pages hosted on the 216.70.98.61 server; the server doesn`t know that you`re trying to access TI unless you tell it....."
The owner of that IP hosts different domains from it.
"SummaryWhich IP numbers does TwinkInfo.com Portal | World of Warcraft WoW Twinks use?
TwinkInfo.com Portal | World of Warcraft WoW Twinks uses the IP number 216.70.98.61 only which also maskedarmory.com, mail.twinkinfo.com, mail.maskedarmory.com and three other use..."
So by just going to that numeric IP it doesn't know which domain you want :p
 
Long story short, I worked as a supervisor for one of the MAJOR web hosting companies which I won't name, and it was simply DNS propagation. The domain expired, when a domain expires the registrar puts it on hold, when the domain is paid for they re-point it, and that new DNS record takes anywhere from 24-48 hours to propagate to the DNS each person's ISP uses, depending on the TTL on that server or in your cache.

Bottom line, this is normal, nothing to see here. It's so common, we had chat shortcuts for giving this information out in support chats.
 
Kincaide said:
Long story short, I worked as a supervisor for one of the MAJOR web hosting companies which I won't name, and it was simply DNS propagation. The domain expired, when a domain expires the registrar puts it on hold, when the domain is paid for they re-point it, and that new DNS record takes anywhere from 24-48 hours to propagate to the DNS each person's ISP uses, depending on the TTL on that server or in your cache.

Bottom line, this is normal, nothing to see here. It's so common, we had chat shortcuts for giving this information out in support chats.
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I guess that explains it but what I've learned because of this raises a question for me, I wonder if you might be able to answer.
Since twinkino.com and maskedarmory.com both have the same numeric ip's [216.70.98.61] and therefore dns will funnel a page request for either both to [216.70.98.61], how do their servers know which page you want?
 
You're asking people on TI, are they having problems accessing TI o_O If they're reading your post i'm gonna go ahead and say.... No!
 
Achmed said:
There were people who couldn't access TI due to the DNS propagation long time.

Also it's obvious that not all have a good understanding of how this whole internet works thus his question is legit.

Now i wonder whos moronic between you two and OP? Nevermind i know already the answer.


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bless you for trying.
 
thubble said:
I guess that explains it but what I've learned because of this raises a question for me, I wonder if you might be able to answer.
Since twinkino.com and maskedarmory.com both have the same numeric ip's [216.70.98.61] and therefore dns will funnel a page request for either both to [216.70.98.61], how do their servers know which page you want?
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Put in simple terms, most web hosts have quite a number of domains on a single IP. IPs are actually at a premium these days as we run out (hence the ramp up to IPv6) and having a dedicated IP is an addon service only offered to business packages typically. The DNS table understands what domain you're looking for and directs you to the root directory on that IP for that domain. Attempting to http directly to an IP address, in many cases, will actually get you to no page at all (or some page set up by the hosting company).
 
Achmed said:
There were people who couldn't access TI due to the DNS propagation long time.

Also it's obvious that not all have a good understanding of how this whole internet works thus his question is legit.

Now i wonder whos moronic between you two and OP? Nevermind i know already the answer.


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It's "I know the answer already".

If you read the OP, he asks how many of us are having problems accessing TI. The answer, just by actually being able to read his post, is none.

I actually don't have a good or even decent understanding of websites, but as you can see i have no problem with logic. You should try it sometime :rolleyes:.
 
Either the propagation is taking a while or some ISPs some don't flush DNS cache: I can't access TI from home, but can from work. (Won't be doing much work today!)
 
From my understanding of the internet superhighway, one of the gnomes got drunk and thought it would be funny to turn some DNS traffic lanes on and off.
 
srsbsns said:
From my understanding of the internet superhighway, one of the gnomes got drunk and thought it would be funny to turn some DNS traffic lanes on and off.
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I'm just short man. No need to call me a gnome :p
 
Kincaide said:
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I feel like I didn't answer your question sufficiently the first time around. The IP address you're referring to is that of the server, upon which the directory resides that contains the site of twinkinfo.com. The domain points to the server, which has a DNS record (NS records, A records, etc) for the domain. This record tells the server what directory the domain is in, so that if the server gets a request for a particular domain, it has a map of where to direct the traffic depending on the type of request (http, ftp, ping, MX for mail, etc.

It is also possible to map an IP address to a directory as well, and while this is a slightly different DNS method, it is how a site on a shared server can have a dedicated IP. There are other ways of arranging server space, but for the majority of non-business sites, this is how it works.
 
The Saint said:
It's "I know the answer already".

If you read the OP, he asks how many of us are having problems accessing TI. The answer, just by actually being able to read his post, is none.

I actually don't have a good or even decent understanding of websites, but as you can see i have no problem with logic. You should try it sometime :rolleyes:.
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You either have a problem with logic or the English language if you think that having problems accessing something equates to having no access at all.

If you can read, there were a few problems mentioned that people were having regarding accessing TI. For some their preferred browser wouldn't work but they were able to access it on another. For other people they had no access from home but could at work. Others mentioned how they could only get on using their smart phone as opposed to their PC. I also mentioned that I had to use a sketchy proxy server to access TI. Starting to catch on yet?
 
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