Post by thread:[OT]: PICList web errors

source= http://www.piclist.com/postbot.asp?id=piclist\2002\07\05\121424a Someone would be me. I did renew the piclist.com (and piclist.org) domains as I do every year. The server won't ping, and it does retaliate automatically to most attacks. She a very smart puppy. Although she could be smarter and I always welcome constructive feedback on security issues. I would assume from the description that the server was A) Very busy. The search engine is a real cycle hog now that there are 11,768 documents totaling over 2 Gigabytes of text in the index. The new server has been quickly overcome with the load and I'm looking for a new indexing engine to replace the one in IIS 4.0 B) Not connected to the net. The damn DSL connection is just not reliable... although I have to admit there have been no noticable outages for some time... You can try http://nt2.massmind.org/techref/piclist as a backup site. It is a little out of date (does anyone have experience with directory replication between NT 4.0 servers over VPN via PPTP?) C) Just not being found by your ISPs DNS server. Try http://66.13.172.18/techref/piclist don't use just http://66.13.172.18 because I havn't got around to takeing an old copy of a clients web site off line yet. Best of luck. --- James Newton: PICList.com webmaster, former Admin #3 spam_OUTjamesnewtonTakeThisOuTpiclist.com 1-619-652-0593 phone http://www.piclist.com/member/JMN-EFP-786 PIC/PICList FAQ: http://www.piclist.com -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList .....piclist-unsubscribe-requestKILLspam@spam@mitvma.mit.edu

My best guess is something similar to C. I couldn't get the IP, and under the other 2 situations, I would have gotten it. If the server doesn't ping, I think that the ping program will still return an IP that it gets from the DNS, rather than "Bad IP." I figure that what happened is that my ISP's DNS temporarily lost the IP for piclist.com. Anyway, it's cleared up now. And, btw, thanks for running PICList.com. We all know how much time and effort gets put into it. Not to mention Bandwidth. --Brendan {Original Message removed}