Re: Are the issues with my domain DNS related?
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:42:15 +0930
Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 04:30 -0500, Linus Ulrick wrote:
> I have fully qualified domain: afolkey2.net. It can USUALLY be
> found thusly:
> http://www.afolkey2.net
>
> Tonight when I came home from work, I started seeing problems with
> pages loading. Try the following to see what I mean:
> http://www.afolkey2.net/awstats/awstats.pl?config=www.afolkey2.net
> http://www.afolkey2.net/gallery2/main.php
The website didn't load, first go, here. But the stats page did.
Very odd. Both did eventually load, but both slowly. Though, since
the pages I had to look at were all "generated" things (stats and
photo galleries), that's not uncommon. Such things are often
painfully slow, in my experience.
See my response in another part of this thread that explains how I
fixed my problem. See especially my references to /etc/hosts.
Usually, my gallery works great. Even on a Windows ME dial-up machine
that I tried it on. Of course, sometimes it is a little slow. What I
was seeing locally (I THINK "locally" is a big key here) was a whole
other animal entirely.
It should be noted that making stats public can subject you to
referrer spam: Spammers linking to your pages, hoping to turn up in
your stats, and hoping that you publish your stats, or publish what
refers to you in some other way, so that you give them free
advertising. You can get deluged by them, and some quite unsavoury
things, too.
Point well taken. The link is now gone. Thank you very much for
pointing this out to me :)
It should also be noted that pinging a machine is quite a different
thing than using some other service on it. You can get good or bad
ping responses that are contrary to how their services respond. All
a ping test is how they respond to pings. :-\
You have taught me something else now. Two things so far in this
email...
Also, I will look through the parts of your response that I trimmed
out and see if there is anything I can use from those parts.
Thank you again for your help.
Steven P. Ulrick