ZoneEdit Nameservers down
July 29th, 2009 | by Sean |
ZoneEdit Servers Down
That’ll teach me to be a cheapskate! Poditronic.com and spider.my are both served from my desk. DNS for my ADSL-conected (dynamic IP) server is free from ZoneEdit. Spider.my has a special feature on its homepage that checks the site’s connectivity to the Internet. The check only runs when the homepage is viewed from the local (on my desk) network. All it is 2 fetches of a “what is my IP” script and a “what IP does spider.my resolve to” PHP script at lolyco.com. If the two IP addresses are different, a warning is displayed on pages served to the local network.
I got the warning yesterday, and had a quick look at ZoneEdit’s site. Their network status page has the story about the servers being attacked. Since I’m intending to keep spider.my and poditronic going for a while yet, I paid for an extra nameserver for them – $10 per year. It may look like a bad time to give money to a service provider, but I’ve been with ZoneEdit for a few years now, for quite a few sites, and never previously given them even a thank you.
Poditronic.com is now back online – it was very easy to update the domain nameserver details at Exabytes – my registrar. I can’t do the same for spider.my, some sort of weirdness with Exabytes being the ‘Technical Contact’. I’ve been in touch with their support by email and given them the changes, and now I’m waiting…