Posted by NateChurch on 7/27/2008 8:36 AM | Comments (0)
My DNS provider died. For those of you playing at home DNS(or domain name service) is the method by which domain names(like NateChurch.com) are resolved to their host IP(208.109.181.183). Your DNS servers are setup by your ISP(Internet Service Provider). It takes forever to triage and setup new DNS settings because on some DNS servers the TTL(Time To Live) for a record is 24 hours. This means that the change doesn't show up until the TTL has expired. So if for instance I screwed up the initial record I wouldn't catch it for a day and then it would take another day to show up again. Oh well that was more crap than I wanted to talk about.

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