i cant login the past 2 days, till today i am thinking what happen...

groink wrote:

If you're geeky enough (and can actually read this), you can fix your PC to surf JDorama.com, or avoid a DNS server re-fresh: 1) Go to Start | Run... 2) Type in "notepad %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" then click OK. 3) On the very bottom (right underneath 127.0.0.1 localhost), add: 207.44.218.55 jdorama.com 207.44.218.55 www.jdorama.com then save the hosts document.

Not geeky enough I guess. But I just followed what you said and saved it. So I hope it works now! Thanks.



Oh yeah, and I'm back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Was having some "withdrawl symptoms" for a while!
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MixxDreamer wrote:

deng i didnt even have the whole access here yesterday and i was soooo bored and ended up posting on the other forums i go to

Me too! I was so bored that I registered myself for two other different forums. -Japantoday.com and-FuckedGaijin.com
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ahochaude wrote:

Not geeky enough I guess. But I just followed what you said and saved it. So I hope it works now! Thanks.

Actually, it's best to undo that change now that jdorama's DNS has been fixed. It was only a temporary workaround while the ISP had fudged up the nameservers.

But you could save the file somewhere so you can use it again if this problem reappears.

If you don't undo the hosts file change, it's like hardcoding the jdorama site's IP address on your computer. That IP could possibly change (usually a rare thing to happen), and if you maintained the modified hosts file, then you'd be shut out from the site again

vibius wrote:

Actually, it's best to undo that change now that jdorama's DNS has been fixed. It was only a temporary workaround while the ISP had fudged up the nameservers. But you could save the file somewhere so you can use it again if this problem reappears. If you don't undo the hosts file change, it's like hardcoding the jdorama site's IP address on your computer. That IP could possibly change (usually a rare thing to happen), and if you maintained the modified hosts file, then you'd be shut out from the site again

Understood! *does some typing and grunting*
Finished! Thanks vibius! It's good to know that the smart people are always willing to help out the dumb ones here!
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ahochaude wrote:

Thanks vibius! It's good to know that the smart people are always willing to help out the dumb ones here!

Ahh, the only dumbos were the ISP boneheads who screwed up the DNS!

Anyway, welcome back.

vibius wrote:

Ahh, the only dumbos were the ISP boneheads who screwed up the DNS!

True! Those kooks messed up my weekend! Suckas!
Nah, but I'm an idiot when it comes to computers.

vibius wrote:

Anyway, welcome back.

Thanks!
Still awaiting the "arrival" of bmwracer. He's been jonzing with me for the site to come back up. Hope he gets my message soon.
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Kris wrote:

i cant login the past 2 days, till today i am thinking what happen...

You should've seen it... The last day and a half, only Vibius and I were on. It was very unusual to see only two people on-line.

--- groink

groink wrote:

You should've seen it... The last day and a half, only Vibius and I were on. It was very unusual to see only two people on-line. --- groink

Hey Groink. How come only some people (like you and Vibius) were able to get on? You guys must have some secret powers huh?!

Don't mind me asking, it's just that I don't catch all this computer stuffs.
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groink wrote:

You should've seen it... The last day and a half, only Vibius and I were on. It was very unusual to see only two people on-line.

Yeah, we coulda taken over!

I still don't understand what the ISP was doing ... it was just like they deleted the zones for a day and half, and now they are back. I'm not sure, but I don't think they re-IP'd the nameservers ...

I still think jdorama ought to get another secondary somewhere.

You guys got on?!?! I couldnt get on the entire weekend =(.... lucky guys.... Im suffering from withdrawls rite now like bmwracer...*hands shaking*
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ahochaude wrote:

How come only some people (like you and Vibius) were able to get on? You guys must have some secret powers huh?!

Well, I've done a little DNS administration in the past, so when I had problems reaching jdorama, I realized that it was a DNS problem. For some reason, my computer wasn't able to look up the IP address for jdorama.com.

So, since I run a web proxy, I looked in my proxy logs, found the last IP address that jdorama.com resolved to, and created a temporary zone in my DNS server to return that address for hosts in the jdorama.com domain. I did this because I have several computers, but it would be just the same if I had used Groink's method of modifying the hosts file on each of my computers.

Anyway, in short, since the normal DNS servers had been screwed up by the ISP, I just temporarily "hardcoded" the IP address for jdorama.com on my computers. So that let me access the site.

vibius wrote:

Well, I've done a little DNS administration in the past, so when I had problems reaching jdorama, I realized that it was a DNS problem. For some reason, my computer wasn't able to look up the IP address for jdorama.com. So, since I run a web proxy, I looked in my proxy logs, found the last IP address that jdorama.com resolved to, and created a temporary zone in my DNS server to return that address for hosts in the jdorama.com domain. I did this because I have several computers, but it would be just the same if I had used Groink's method of modifying the hosts file on each of my computers. Anyway, in short, since the normal DNS servers had been screwed up by the ISP, I just temporarily "hardcoded" the IP address for jdorama.com on my computers. So that let me access the site.

Think I understand a sentence or two!

So, the site should be alright from now then?!
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ahochaude wrote:

So, the site should be alright from now then?!

Well, I dunno about that. I have serious doubts about this ISP at this point. For now things seem ok, but this ISP could easily fudge it up again for all I know. I just don't understand why they could have screwed things up so bad, and why they didn't fix it immediately.

There is a solution to prevent this from happening in the future, and that is to add more secondary nameservers for the jdorama domain. But only Genma can do that, because it has to be done by the person who owns the domain. I tried to send him a message about all that ... but I know he's away being busy in France.

vibius wrote:

Well, I dunno about that. I have serious doubts about this ISP at this point. For now things seem ok, but this ISP could easily fudge it up again for all I know. I just don't understand why they could have screwed things up so bad, and why they didn't fix it immediately.

Aw man, that's kind of kooky right there.
So basically, it's all human error then?

vibius wrote:

There is a solution to prevent this from happening in the future, and that is to add more secondary nameservers for the jdorama domain. But only Genma can do that, because it has to be done by the person who owns the domain. I tried to send him a message about all that ... but I know he's away being busy in France.

Yeah, and he'll be gone for a couple of months or so. So I hope this site can hold up until he comes back.
I felt really weird not being able to come here during my days off.
*sigh* Oh wells, at least I had a pretty productive weekend. Cleaning every nook and cranny of the house, get all my 'ish' together. Come to think of it.......What a crappy weekend I had!
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I just came back home yesterday from three days holiday and found that I can't open jdorama...
I'm like 'what's going on?'
it was today that I find that jdorama is here and I'm relieved

ahochaude wrote:

So basically, it's all human error then?

Well, it looks that way from where I'm sitting. I don't really have all the facts, though. I think Groink actually talked to them, so he might know what they did wrong. But this kind of error was both preventable and easy to fix, and yet they let it go on about 2 days. That kind of indicates they are boneheads.

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So I hope this site can hold up until he comes back.

I think it'll be ok, unless the ISP has more problems during this changeover they are doing.

If this same problem happens again, you can always try adding jdorama's IP address to your host file, like Groink explained.

vibius wrote:

Well, it looks that way from where I'm sitting. I don't really have all the facts, though. I think Groink actually talked to them, so he might know what they did wrong. But this kind of error was both preventable and easy to fix, and yet they let it go on about 2 days. That kind of indicates they are boneheads.

Man, I hope those boneheads don't screw things up again.
Heh, now I'm reminded of "Zoolander", when they were trying to open the computer! Damn monkeys!

vibius wrote:

I think it'll be ok, unless the ISP has more problems during this changeover they are doing. If this same problem happens again, you can always try adding jdorama's IP address to your host file, like Groink explained.

Sounds good. Hopefully a bonehead like me will be able to do it correctly if worse comes to worst.
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Shit!!! I finally got back into this place!!! I thought I got banned for all of my Ryoko-chan posts or something....

Well, at least it gave me time to work on my stinking income taxes.... I'm getting money back, but I still hate filling out those idiotic forms...

Now I've gotta catch up on lost time... Look out people!!

bmwracer wrote:

I thought I got banned for all of my Ryoko-chan posts or something....

You were banned for not posting *enough* Ryoko ...



J/K