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"Websites unavailable - DNS outage"

Morning - I've been scrambling round trying to see what's going on with some of my sites (mostly one's hosted on server 2 and 7 it seemed).

I found one domain totally unavailable rather than just running slowly - and worryingly a whois on the domain (co.uk) shows it as available to register. I renewed in Jan 2012.

I was halfway through raising a support ticket and happened to catch the new item that appeared on the Status Page about DNS problems so cancelled the ticket.

Hopefully this is connected to the on-going DNS problem but thought I would just ask here in case this is something different and I should raise a ticket?

Thanks,
[s]Hmmm...[/s]

Thinking about this some more -
Actually a whois looks fine it's just Freeola's domain availability search that shows it's available - so I guess it's all related to the outage. Not one I've seen before.
Doing a similar search from a different provider (feel dirty now!) shows it correctly taken!

Morning - I've been scrambling round trying to see what's going on with some of my sites (mostly one's hosted on server 2 and 7 it seemed).

I found one domain totally unavailable rather than just running slowly - and worryingly a whois on the domain (co.uk) shows it as available to register. I renewed in Jan 2012.

I was halfway through raising a support ticket and happened to catch the new item that appeared on the Status Page about DNS problems so cancelled the ticket.

Hopefully this is connected to the on-going DNS problem but thought I would just ask here in case this is something different and I should raise a ticket?

Thanks,
[s]Hmmm...[/s]

Thinking about this some more -
Actually a whois looks fine it's just Freeola's domain availability search that shows it's available - so I guess it's all related to the outage. Not one I've seen before.
Doing a similar search from a different provider (feel dirty now!) shows it correctly taken!

Hmmm

Have you checked your domains against the Nominet WHOIS

Sorry about that. Should be all back to normal now. We were performing some maintenance at one of the data centres last night (just woken up, sleeping in the day is strange!) and this affect cross server access for the availability checker and a few other things. DNS wasn't really related to the maintenance. I think it just got jealous.

pctech wrote:
Hmmm

Have you checked your domains against the Nominet WHOIS

Yep - all ok. As I mentioned it was only Freeola's view that had a problem.

@Eccles
Thanks - All been ok for me since the Status Page item was closed this morning :¬)

[s]Hmmm...[/s]

You really must stop staring at those racks, Eccles, you're making the servers nervous :)

pctech wrote:
You really must stop staring at those racks, Eccles, you're making the servers nervous :)

Now there's a man that knows ;¬)

@DL ;)

PCs and servers start working again when I approach them.

A man of our time ... apply for the job now :¬)