IP address of site changed - old IP being turned off

[Steve St.Laurent]

We had to change the IP address of the server due to an issue with the old address. I made the change two days ago and currently it's running on both IP's. We will be turning off the old IP address tomorrow and there is a remote chance that your DNS server will not have updated (it should only take 24 hours but there's always the remote possibility). If you have trouble getting into the server you can get to it directly through the new IP address at http://69.61.23.10 as well. Sorry for any inconvenience.



-Steve St. Laurent

Webmaster

 

[NETim]

Dang sysadmins anyways! Always dinkin' around with addresses n' such. Just when things are up and runnin' they have to mess with stuff.



Will they ever learn?



Tim

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

We had to change the address this time because the IP address we were on was a stolen address. Our co-location facility bought out another company over 2 years ago to get their IP addresses. Our block of IP's was one of those. It turns out that the original company had stolen those IP's from someone that had purchased them and was using them on an in house network. This was recently dicovered and since someone else owned those IP's they couldn't be used any more. Emails from our server were getting blocked by some systems because of this. Our host facility bought new IP addresses and assigned us a block of those. That's why we had to change - wasn't really anything that could be foreseen. Believe me - the last thing I felt like doing was an IP address change!



-Steve

 

[cdpsrjc]

May your beeper remain silent... .

 

[NETim]

Steve, I'm sure that's the last thing you'd want to do. Just takin' a light hearted swipe at network administrators.



Spent an afternoon trying to figure out why one of my CT's wouldn't boot up with network services enabled. Found out later (after we FINALLY were able to make contact with them) that the VA's IS dept had just arbitrarily changed the IP's on the DNS servers and hadn't bothered to notify anyone.



It was bad enough they made the change without prior notification but disappearing and not returning phone calls was positively inexcusable IMHO.



Fortunately those types are in the minority.



Tim

 

[Dkevdog]

Exact same thing happened to us with our VPN's at work. We had our IP's taken and given to someone else because we hadn't used them in a year or so. There is a real shortage of available remaining IP's. Time to allow for upgrade.



Kev

 

[bighammer]

But now there are a bunch of stickers with a non-functioning web address.



Maybe a black marker can hide em

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

What do you mean pete? I sure hope noone made up stickers that said http://139.81.139.106 on it!

 

[illflem]

no big deal but,

Maybe it's a coincidence or is coming from my computer. But since the address change when I click to a older tdr thread posted as a link in a new thread the page style changes to the newer default style on the linked thread rather than the no borders style that I have set. Until three days ago the last time I saw the new style page was the first day it came out, I changed it back to the old style immediately.

 

[bighammer]

My home page was set to tdr1.com and it quit working a couple days ago. I went to the forums link in my favorites and then the tdr homepage link from there. It says it's turbodieselregister.com or something like that.



The TDR stickers I got from Robin have tdr1.com on them.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

tdr1.com is working fine now. We forgot to change some of the alternate addresses until the day after the change and then it took about 24 hours for that to propogate across. You're much better off using www.turbodieselregister.com though because you won't get the register.com ad at the bottom of the page.



Illflem - the only thing I can think of that would be causing that is the cookie not working properly. Do you have www.turbodieselregister.com listed in your trusted sites list? My guess is you probably had the old IP address listed there and not the website address. The reason I say that is I went through the post database today and searched for anyone that had links in their posts by the IP address and you had a ton of em - about 80% of the ones I changed were your posts. So I think you were probably accessing the site through the IP address rather than www.turbodieselregister.com .

 

[klenger]

What do you mean pete? I sure hope noone made up stickers that said http://139.81.139.106 on it!

That's a cool idea. Where can I get one?