So usually when changing your DNS records you need to lower the time out to something small like 2 hours. Usually its set for a week or month. My guess is you have a bad DNS record and can flush your dns cache (worked for me at least).
https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/272 -- Andy On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Anders Logg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 10:26:39PM -0600, Douglas Arnold wrote: > >> It seems that www.fenics.org is not working. For at least several hours, I >> cannot get to it (although I can reach it at >> http://communalis.simula.no/www.fenicsproject.org). > > The reason for this is that I have moved the domain name to a new > registrar because of billing problems with the old one, and yesterday > the new registrar activated DNS for fenicsproject.org. I've been in > contact with them and they claim everything is configured correctly > and it seems to be as far as I can tell. > > What I think is the problem right now is that the old registrar is > still sending out DNS information which is confusing the DNS system. > I've asked them to stop. > > I've used nslookup to try to diagnose the problem and here's the > current results using different combinations of DNS servers and addresses: > > Old DNS (bahnhof): > > ns1.bahnhof.net ns2.bahnhof.net > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > fenicsproject.org REFUSED WORKS > www.fenicsproject.org REFUSED WORKS > fenicsproject.com REFUSED NO ANSWER > www.fenicsproject.com REFUSED NO ANSWER > > New DNS (nameisp): > > ns1.nameisp.info ns2.nameisp.info > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > fenicsproject.org NO ANSWER NO ANSWER > www.fenicsproject.org WORKS WORKS > fenicsproject.com NO ANSWER NO ANSWER > www.fenicsproject.com WORKS WORKS > > Anyone knows this stuff, please help me out diagnosing the problems or > confirm the above, using nslookup or some other tool. Here's a short > list of instructions: > > $ nslookup >> server ns1.nameisp.info >> www.fenicsproject.org > > etc. > >> I am planning to present FEniCS to a class in 11 hours, so I hope it >> will be back! > > I'm very sorry for the bad timing... > > In the meantime, just use the IP address: > > http://128.39.36.31 > > Then click 'www.fenicsproject.org'. > > -- > Anders > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
