Can't Access Main Site?

[FiveDisgruntledMonkeysWit]

Since I'm not seeing any posts on the topic, I'm pretty sure this is just me. But I just thought I'd check...
Is anyone else unable to access www.armageddon.org ?
I can get into the game just fine, and (obviously) the GDB as well. Anyone have any idea what might be causing this?

[psionic fungus]

I think there is a DNS error, because I cannot access the game...

So... Uh... What's the IP address again?  I want to log on.

[FiveDisgruntledMonkeysWit]

Oh, I just tried to access the game again, and couldn't.
I managed to get in just fine about half an hour ago, so that's a recent development. My problem with the main site has been going on for longer.

[psionic fungus]

Hmm.

I get this error:

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Could not establish connection.
Reason: name lookup has failed


I still want to try the IP... What is it?

Also, www.zalanthas.org is hosted by Dreamhost, so it doesn't suffer from the same server issues...

[staggerlee]

I can connect to both site and main page just fine. 

[psionic fungus]

Hmm... I tried the IP (51.79.252.54) and got this error:

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Could not establish connection.
Reason: timed operation timed out


Ginka hates me. 

[touringCompl3t3]

yeah dude.  So like what's the ip?  type ping armageddon.org and let me know what you get.

[Aesuna]

The IP address for ginka.armageddon.org is 64.252.79.51. It works for me, at least.

[psionic fungus]

Uhm... I couldn't get the IP because the DNS wasn't working.  Someone else told me the IP was 64.252.79.51, but that doesn't work either...

I get no return on PING and TRACEROUTE failed miserably.

Anyone know a proxy server I can try?

[staggerlee]

www.armageddon.org (64.252.79.51) responds to my pings just fine.

It could be a router between you and them is down somewhere I suppose.
Sorry I can't be much more help than that.

[FiveDisgruntledMonkeysWit]

Weird. ginka.armageddon.org worked just fine, but armageddon.org doesn't work.
Also, none of the links from the main page work. I tried clicking on 'Original Submissions', and got this: http://ww23.rr.com/index.php?origURL=http://www.armageddon.org/original/index.php

[Zoan]

You could try OpenDNS, at least I do and it works fine.

www.opendns.com

[psionic fungus]

Damn... My shit is all fucked up.

Ourla just got in using the IP, but I still cannot.

WEIRD.

[touringCompl3t3]

64.252.79.51 works fine for me, muchos gracias for the help dude.

Prolly just a DHCP lease from the ISP expired, A new DHCP was leased, and DNS replication is taking longer than usual.  That's my best guess.  Muchos gracias.

[FuSoYa]

I'm at work and I can't access the main site either.  I leave in ten minutes and I'm really hoping I can log in to ARM as I haven't had a chance to play in two days...

Yay.

Brandon

[psionic fungus]

I still can't log in.

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--- 64.252.79.51 ping statistics ---
11 packets transmitted, 9 received, 18% packet loss, time 10017ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 116.237/117.646/123.051/2.020 ms


WTF?

Lame.   

[manonfire]

I'm logged into Arm just fine. Kek.

[FuSoYa]

Logged into the game fine.  Can't access the main site.

Brandon

[Mood]

Logged into the game fine.  Can't access the main site.

Brandon

This.

[psionic fungus]

It must be an OS or client issue for me... Ourla can log in to the game...

Lame.

[Cutthroat]

If you want to access the site, putting 64.252.79.51 into your address bar should work fine. I doubt you'll be able to use the request tool very easily though, and for any link you click on you'll have to replace http://www.armageddon.org with 64.252.79.51.

So, 64.252.79.51/general will take you to the general information page, etc etc.

[psionic fungus]

I just don't understand why Ourla can log in and I cannot.  So strange.

Okay.  Definitely a client issue at this point.  Bummer.

I can telnet over from my terminal fine.   

[touringCompl3t3]

Flush your dns cache, dude.  If that don't work, re-install your operating system.

LOL.

[psionic fungus]

I don't know what the issue is... The Kmuddy just won't connect properly via IP.  It's possessed.


These are the bastards responsible though, ultimately:

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Nameserver trace for www.armageddon.org:

    * Looking for who is responsible for root zone and followed l.root-servers.net.
    * Looking for who is responsible for org and followed tld1.ultradns.net.
    * Looking for who is responsible for armageddon.org and followed ns2.connix.net.

Nameservers for www.armageddon.org:

    * ns2.connix.net returned (NORECORDS)
    * ns1.thebiz.net returned (NORECORDS)
    * ns0.connix.net returned (NORECORDS)


I say we pie them.  With ICBMs.


edit:

So... I switched the address to the IP in Kmuddy, and then CLOSED the program.

After reopening it, I was able to connect via IP.

Strange.  Jubilation!

[NoteworthyFellow]

Aw shit, I can't connect to Arm.  Someone's going to have to explain to the kid over here who has no confidence at all with computer issues what's going on.     As in, uh, PF, what exactly did you do?

EDIT: Never mind, just connected via the IP and everything was fine.  Isn't it great what reading the whole thread can do for you?  Leaving the rest of the post intact so I can be properly shamed.