www.ufopaedia.org ?

[MvGulik]

Quick edit by Pete - site accessible again, see this post if you're having trouble: https://www.strategycore.co.uk/forums/wwwuf...5038#entry95038

 

Hi

 

Anyone has any info on what might/has happened to www.ufopaedia.org.

At this moment this url is displaying some general (BS) page.

 

Thanks

[FullAuto]

This one?

[MvGulik]

This one?

Yes

Should look like this cached page.

[MvGulik]

To eliminate a possible option. This is the image that I get in my browser.

 

current [_bad_] https://sites.google.com/site/mvguliktmp/online_images/strategycore_ufopaedia_current.png

 

Expected [_good_] https://sites.google.com/site/mvguliktmp/online_images/strategycore_ufopaedia_cached.png

 

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[Zombie]

Check the web address again. It should start with

https://www

If you omit the www you'll get a junk page.

 

Or as Bomb Bloke pointed out privately, the domain registration for the site could have expired and in the brief hiatus a "squatter" might have took control over the address temporarily. But it's only a hiccup. The data and the site is stored on StrategyCore's server so there will never be a loss of info.

 

- Zombie

[MvGulik]

Check the web address again. It should start with

https://www

If you omit the www you'll get a junk page.

 

Or as Bomb Bloke pointed out privately, the domain registration for the site could have expired and in the brief hiatus a "squatter" might have took control over the address temporarily. But it's only a hiccup. The data and the site is stored on StrategyCore's server so there will never be a loss of info.

 

- Zombie

I'm getting the junk page with leading www. But your comment point me to that my ISP is currently the most probably reason why I'm still getting the wrong page. At least its good to know its not something permanent.

Thanks.

 

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[Sunflash]

I only see the regular wiki myself. >.>

[Bomb Bloke]

When a DNS record gets changed in some way, it takes a while for that information to distribute around the 'net. So some people may still have access to the original site.

 

(DNS is the service that your computer uses to translate a domain name (eg "ufopedia.org") to an actual computer's location (eg the server that holds the UFOpedia)).

[BladeFireLight]

Any Idea what the IP address it's supposed to resolve to. I would like to look at some game file references tonight and can update my hosts file if I know the IP.

 

-Blade FireLight

[MvGulik]

Figured asking the same question. The original IP to bypass the DNS hickup. (tried google's dns server, but no luck there)

 

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[Pete]

I'm looking into it, but need to get in touch with GazChap to solve it. I've emailed him so we'll see what happens.

[Pete]

The domain status is "AUTORENEWPERIOD" which is described as:

 

autoRenewPeriod: This status code indicates that a domain has been automatically renewed by the registry upon its expiry date, and that the registry has not yet received payment for the renewal. The registrar will receive a credit note if a domain name on this status code is deleted. The presence of this status code does not prevent any updates to the domain by the registrar.

 

It's likely that the registrar is awaiting payment and until payment is made they're pointing it elsewhere (they usually do this to both hurry folks into paying and make money off these horrid link portals). I'm attempting to get in touch and see if I can pay them directly.

 

In the meantime I'm trying to source another temporary domain (ufopaedia.net - I'll let you know when it's hooked up) in case this takes a long time for whatever reason. Hopefully later today it'll be accessible via the original or temporary domain, or possibly both.

[Kret]

It is possible to bypass the DNS query by using the hosts file in a windows system. Just add the IP address and URL name (without the https://) to the file and restart your browser. At this point DNS queries to that particular URL will not be made as the hosts file takes precedence.

 

Note that you should remove the entry at a later time in order to prevent having issues if the actual server's IP address changes or the site is moved elsewhere.

 

There are the entires I've used to get it working:

67.227.156.77 www.ufopaedia.org

67.227.156.77 ufopaedia.org

 

For Windows systems, the hosts file is located at "C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc" (it has no extension)

Note 1: For 64 bit systems the path might be different

Note 2: For Windows Vista and 7 make sure the editor you use is running with hightened privileges so that the editing of the file isn't "virtualized" or simply blocked.

[Pete]

I've contacted GazChap and he's renewing it. It may take a while (as in an unknown amount of time likely to be at least 12 hours but probably longer) to come back online. My temporary domain may be ready before then but I'll keep you guys posted.

 

You can do as Kret suggests above in the meantime and it should work fine, however keep an eye on this thread as you'll want to remove that workaround once the issue is fially resolved otherwise, in the event the server IP address ever changes (unlikely but possible), you'll be unable to access the site again.

[Pete]

Okay, we're back up on https://ufopaedia.org (without the www.) now it seems. Just trying to find out why the www. is causing an error at the moment, though it's likely just due to the domain name taking a little while to properly reconfigure with the server.

[MvGulik]

Okay, we're back up on https://ufopaedia.org (without the www.) now it seems. Just trying to find out why the www. is causing an error at the moment, though it's likely just due to the domain name taking a little while to properly reconfigure with the server.

As OP, thanks for the feedback and support on this. (https://ufopaedia.org working at this end to.)

 

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update: the www version also back to working order on this side.

[Pete]

No probs - glad you've got access again.

 

I've had it confirmed that the www. variant should be working too. I can now get into both just fine, but if you can't then try closing your browser and re-opening it, or waiting a few hours.

[BladeFireLight]

www. does not work for me.. get error 500. both resolve to the same IP so it's something on the server setup.

[Kret]

I've tried IE8, FF3.6, Opera 10.10 and Chrome 4 [4.0.249.89 (38071)] and only FF had problems with the non www URL which is likely to be something it has cached rather than a DNS issue. Also ran the command ipconfig /flushdns before trying them out.

 

Edit: Comfirmed, after cleaning FF's privacy history for the last hour or so the non www URL worked.

[Pete]

Yeah, it's a caching issue in the browser. Nothing's changed on the server for days, trust me

[BladeFireLight]

didn't work until i cleared everything.

[Orion Lukas]

Yeah it works now. Thanks for fixing it up.

[Matri]

Never settle for just the two default DNS servers provided by your ISP. I've added an extra 4 servers to my connection for a total of 6 servers.

 

Usually enough to prevent situations like this.

[Pete]

Well you still would've had the original problem of the domain name expiring and pointing to a holding page, but I see your point with the extra nameservers - one of them may well update quicker than your defaults.

[NKF]

Are we able to get alternate URLs to the ufopaedia that we could use in cases like this? Something like www.strategycore.co.uk\ufopaedia, for example?

 

- NKF