That's what I thought until I got the second report

Post #313,367 by drook 9/1/09 12:18:03 PM 9/2/09 2:29:34 AM Reply	That's what I thought until I got the second report I've asked both of them for details about what they see, and what ISP they use. Nothing I can do until I get more info. === Okay, got the response: I got to this page through Google cache link to your page - it shows a cached version of the blog which it keeps on its servers. The link to comments from this cached page opened this Blogger URL, so I now come directly to the Blogger comment page (which shows up normally). When I go to http://blog.cooklikeyourgrandmother.com, this error message shows up: "Firefox can't find the server at blog.cooklikeyourgrandmother.com." Yep, weird. I noticed this when I followed the link to your fake food article from my RSS feed. I think it worked fine last week. So it does seem to be a DNS issue. And this report is from someone in Slovenia. Hmmm ... could someone have hijacked the DNS in Slovenia to send spam from "me"? -- Drew Edited by drook Sept. 2, 2009, 02:29:34 AM EDT That's what I thought until I got the second report I've asked both of them for details about what they see, and what ISP they use. Nothing I can do until I get more info. -- Drew Collapse All History
Post #313,410 by folkert 9/2/09 7:09:07 AM Reply	More Like Cache Poisoning. Cache poisoning for Google's entries is more like it. To bad they didn't try for www.'clygm'.com Might have told you more.
Post #313,418 by folkert 9/2/09 8:21:44 AM Reply	looks like that "shortcut" domain might be available. clygm looks to be available. Might be something worth exploring, and since "domain tasting" is a thing of the past, it might just be a good thing.
Post #313,419 by drook 9/2/09 8:23:36 AM Reply	How would that help me? -- Drew
Post #313,423 by folkert 9/2/09 8:42:43 AM Reply	Re: How would that help me? For blogs other than yours? You have to admit: cooklikeyourgrandmother.com is a LOT hard to type and get right than: clygm.com And given the Tweets/SMS/IM character limits, shorter is always better. I know you aren't going after the IM/SMS crowd, but it never hurts to plan ahead in case you NEED it. Considering the price per year... $1/month or less, is it really NOT worth having it at least reserved? (or owned but not used)
Post #313,429 by drook 9/2/09 9:43:36 AM Reply	It's got to be pronounceable Dave Weiner over at scripting.com has been doing a lot of work lately on URL shortening services. The problem is that if one of them goes down a large number of links go dead. His solution is that you have to own your own short names. Having the short URL for my own links would solve that problem, but at the expense of having to set up a 301 redirect for every hit to it, pointing to the corresponding long URL. My URLs are pretty long after the domain anyway, so it's not really saving that much. My site isn't really conducive to reading on a phone anyway, unless you've got enough screen space to be using email instead of SMS anyway, so I'm not terribly worried about the short URLs. Bottom line is I can say "cook like your grandmother dot com" and people get it right. "see el why gee em" won't stick more than 30 seconds for most people. -- Drew
Post #313,440 by folkert 9/2/09 12:27:52 PM Reply	The 301 is a single re-write rule in Apache. As for the pronounceable short URLs... I think you are missing the point in the first place. But I can see your point, stinking in the brain is important. cooklygm.com `greg@maxime:~ [0] $ whois -H cooklygm.com Whois Server Version 2.0 No match for "COOKLYGM.COM". >>> Last update of whois database: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:19:57 UTC <<<` And the Redirect would be something like: `RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} blog.cooklygm.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} cooklygm.com$ RewriteRule ^/$ http://blog.cooklikeyourgrandmother.com/ [R=301,L]`
Post #313,515 by drook 9/4/09 9:29:51 AM Reply	Dammit, just got another report it's not coming up This one is local, from right here in Cleveland. Is there any way to find out what various DNS servers have my domain pointing to? -- Drew
Post #313,554 by folkert 9/4/09 3:47:49 PM Reply	What is comes down to I think... Is your DNS servers aren't properly setup with IP addresses. greg@maxime:~ [0] $ whois -H cooklikeyourgrandmother.com Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. Domain Name: COOKLIKEYOURGRANDMOTHER.COM Registrar: ABACUS AMERICA, INC. DBA NAMES4EVER Whois Server: whois.names4ever.com Referral URL: http://www.names4ever.com Name Server: NS1.ABAC.COM Name Server: NS2.ABAC.COM Status: ok Updated Date: 02-nov-2008 Creation Date: 01-nov-2007 Expiration Date: 01-nov-2009 >>> Last update of whois database: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:44:36 UTC <<< [snip] Record last updated on 2008-11-03 00:00:00 Record created on 2007-11-01 00:00:00 Record expires on 2009-11-01 00:00:00 Domain servers in listed order: ns1.abac.com 216.55.128.4 ns2.abac.com Notice anything missing there?
Post #313,558 by drook 9/4/09 4:57:02 PM Reply	How about "ns1.aplus.net"? -- Drew
Post #313,568 by folkert 9/4/09 7:24:39 PM Reply	Sweet! Just what you need. Still has not propagated yet. Dude, that sucks! There is a reason I do my own DNS. I've only ever considered using DNSMADEEASY as they have 14 geo-located DCs that can fail over traffic and do it right. But oh well, this might learn ya to run DNS separate from Registrar. https://www.dnsmadee...06/price/dns.html They have a 100% uptime guarantee. $30/year for 5 million DNS queries a month. DNS is critical to making your site WORK, you might want to take the extra step.

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