Making Light :: Service interruption :: comments http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004451.html#comments Language, fraud, folly, truth, history, and knitting. Et cetera. en Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:27:12 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.33 Service interruption We were just now inaccessible to much of the net for a little while, due to a DOS attack against... We were just now inaccessible to much of the net for a little while, due to a DOS attack against... http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004451.html Service interruption -- comment #1 from Erik V. Olson comment from Erik V. Olson on 10.Jan.04

I must note that this is only a bandaid. You can't be certain that your web will be on that IP address. One of the reasons the DNS system became popular is because it lets you move machines about. Everyone uses the pointer "http://www.nielsenhayden.org", and if it starts pointing to something else other than 63.247.138.217, that doesn't matter -- the pointer deals with it.

So, if you bookmark that, and Hosting Matters has to move the machine to a different netblock, suddenly, it's gone. For now, when you have a known attack against your DNS servers, it's a useful counter. But be careful what wounds you bandage -- you may be bit by a festering one.

Posted January 10, 2004 10:35 PM by Erik V. Olson

 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004451.html#36517 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004451.html#36517 Sat, 10 Jan 2004 22:35:01 -0500 Service interruption -- comment #2 from Patrick Nielsen Hayden comment from Patrick Nielsen Hayden on 11.Jan.04

We know this. Probably we erred in assuming that other people know this. Nonetheless, it seemed worth giving people a chance to get at our pages during DNS interruptions, if they care that much. Yes, definitely, bookmarks should stay pointed to "nielsenhayden.com".

Not, by the way, "nielsenhayden.org", Erik notwithstanding...

Posted January 11, 2004 10:37 AM by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004451.html#36571 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004451.html#36571 Sun, 11 Jan 2004 10:37:20 -0500 Service interruption -- comment #3 from Erik V. Olson comment from Erik V. Olson on 12.Jan.04

Probably we erred in assuming that other people know this.

I've made that error enough that I finally learned. The general user population doesn't understand DNS -- nor, do they need to.

While using IP is a quick fix, right now, you may want to pull that in a couple of months. "Static" IPs are only static in the short term.

Posted January 12, 2004 8:27 AM by Erik V. Olson

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