Posted on 06/21/2010 12:21:21 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out
Probably not many people noticed, but FR changed its IP address over the weekend, from 209.157.64.201 to 209.157.64.200.
I only noticed because I had hard coded the address to my HOSTS file.
I just wanted to remind the admins that there are many links to 209.157.64.201 out there. Search any search engine for site:209.157.64.201 to see.
I would ping Admin_Technical, but I don’t think such an account exists!
So, ping..
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A209.157.64.201
Related to the outage this morning?
I don’t know. It seemed out to me for about 24 hours, but that’s because I had the wrong IP address in my HOSTS file.
Probably not many people noticed, but FR changed its IP address over the weekend, from 209.157.64.201 to 209.157.64.200.
I've seen both of them used over the years. Originally it was 209.157.64.200 and then it was 209.157.64.201 for a while. And apparently now it's back to the original again.
That's why there are DNS servers out there, so you don't have to use IP numbers ... LOL ...
Just stick to http://www.freerepublic.com/ as that's the way you're supposed to use it so you don't run into problems like you've just mentioned ... :-)
Hoo-boy! there are a lot there, too ... :-)
FR is moving like its using an old 286 Tandy with 1meg of ram as for a server.
True - I didn’t know about that. They should both be active then!
I often see 201 come up in searches though - I don’t think I’ve ever seen 200
I’ve seen it flip back and forth between those two numbers, it’s not even funny ... :-)
I’m not exactly sure why it does, but I’m suspecting it has something to do with a DOS attack... and that’s why it’s switched at times ... but I could be way off on that idea, so don’t take it as something authoritative ... :-)
When I ping www.freerepublic.com it resolved to 209.157.64.201 and it time out.
You meant you hardcoded \Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts or Apple and Linux /etc/hosts
added line
209.157.64.200 www.freerepublic.com
?
Yes. I’ve had it on 201 for over a year. I thought because there were links out there to 201, it would be permanent
Two or multiple IPs are usually for redundancy, since DNS will resolve them if you don’t hardcode it. Sometimes one of the IPs may be used for cashing or CDN servers, such as sometimes different IPs used for www.freerepublic.com and freerepublic.com
Try pinging yahoo.com and www.yahoo.com and you’ll see the difference.
It’s all Greek to me. Just happy to know I wasn’t going crazy. Was beginning to have withdrawal symptoms when I couldn’t get on yesterday! Glad it’s back to normal today!
I wondered if Obama was testing his new “kill switch” toy.
I was wondering that also.
I don’t know about that, but my old C64 just went missing.
I’m so low tech, I don’t save host numbers. I just save the addy to my favorites.
You’ve hit upon part of FR’s unique presence in the online world. I’ve had posts or replies turn up on Google in less than a minute.
We could sway Google Trends all by our lonesome, if we cared to do so, not to mention routine searches. Already do, actually, but it’s not likely to have been a conscious thing with most.
Politicians who are unloved here just have to hate it. Watch certain trolls, and certain trollish FReepers, repeatedly namedrop combined with obvious combinations of keywords like mad whenever things are coming to a head. It happens on both pro and con.
“sway Google Trends all by our lonesome, if we cared to do so”
See here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2512697/posts
In 15 minutes after the post, which included a link to search google for ‘obama social security number’, ‘obama social security number’ went from 7th to 3rd top search. It had been 7th for a long time.
Do you understand the recent troubles at FR, as far as pages coming up blank? I’m occasionally able to get around it by clearing cache, history and cookies.
Maybe I’ve got a vivid imagination, but it seems to happen whenever a particularly damning topic begins to get attention on FR.
No I haven’t been seeing any pages come up blank.
I saw one woman complain that she was getting garbled text. That sounded very strange.
Prior to yesterday’s protracted absence, that was the most frequent form of “outage” in my experience, having happened at least four times over the month prior.
I think some of the most controversial recent topics were the Arizona lawsuit from Obama, the organization of landowners forming up like a state militia in Arizona for border security, and the censorship of unsavory news coming out of the Gulf of the massive killoff of marine life both in the water and the air.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
And just imagine what we could do if only a small percentage contributed a measly 10 dollars a month on automatic payment plan.
Btw, a little off topic....but I always wondered how one can see how many “views” an individual thread gets?
Thanks!
Here’s the reason you couldn’t connect...
I often just do google search for FR, figure it helps bump it up in google search software.
One of our primary servers crashed. We now have the main system running on a secondary server until John repairs or replaces the one that fried. We have several servers at FR all performing various functions. Each server has its own IP address so that’s why you may now be seeing a different IP. It was not a DOS attack. Nothing nefarious. Just a hardware crash. We usually have two servers serving web pages and two serving the database and others doing various tasks. Usually a server going off line wouldn’t crash the entire system but this time it did and John had a bit of a problem getting it all running again.
Don’t know where those stats are from but we get well over a million page views per day average.
book marked
Currently, freerepiblic.com (.200) works, and the fried server www.freerepublic.com (.201) is out of commission. If there is a way to tell people (on “alternative” sites?) to remove www. they won’t have to go through FR withdrawal.
If you use a front load balancer / failover switch for both servers, that may prevent “outages” for some users, but probably will slow things down since only one server will be in use until second server is back online.
If you do an NSLookup on www.freerepublic.com you’ll see that both the .200 and .201 addresses come up. This means that either one can respond to hits on that name. For some reason both servers went down. One of them appears to still be down, and since you had it hard-coded in your hosts file, it couldn’t work on the other one once it became available again. It wasn’t a change in IP addresses.
Nice link - thanks
When I couldn’t get in and all of you could, I remembered that new IP addresses took a while to go out and come back and work. But, when my laptop worked and desktop did not, I thought maybe I was crazy.
Very, very late I googled and saw the #s and tried them. The got me to FR, BUT would not allow me to log in.
I am in now.....hope it holds up. Thanks for the help/ping.
I thought something might be going on.
I was having trouble getting onto FR a couple of nights ago. In troubleshooting, I could reach FR from my work computer, but not from my home machine.
From work, I pinged FR’s domain, and received an address in the reply. I then minimized my RDP session to get back onto my home computer, and typed http://(ip address), and got right on. I then knew it was a DNS issue of some sort. I flushed the DNS cache on my home machine, and all has been well since.
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