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[Andy Ray Terrel <andy.terrel@xxxxxxxxx>]

So usually when changing your DNS records you need to lower the time
out to something small like 2 hours.  Usually its set for a week or
month. My guess is you have a bad DNS record and can flush your dns
cache (worked for me at least).

https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/272

-- Andy

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 10:26:39PM -0600, Douglas Arnold wrote:
>
>> It seems that www.fenics.org is not working.  For at least several hours, I
>> cannot get to it (although I can reach it at http://communalis.simula.no/www.fenicsproject.org).
>
> The reason for this is that I have moved the domain name to a new
> registrar because of billing problems with the old one, and yesterday
> the new registrar activated DNS for fenicsproject.org. I've been in
> contact with them and they claim everything is configured correctly
> and it seems to be as far as I can tell.
>
> What I think is the problem right now is that the old registrar is
> still sending out DNS information which is confusing the DNS system.
> I've asked them to stop.
>
> I've used nslookup to try to diagnose the problem and here's the
> current results using different combinations of DNS servers and addresses:
>
> Old DNS (bahnhof):
>
>                        ns1.bahnhof.net   ns2.bahnhof.net
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> fenicsproject.org       REFUSED           WORKS
> www.fenicsproject.org   REFUSED           WORKS
> fenicsproject.com       REFUSED           NO ANSWER
> www.fenicsproject.com   REFUSED           NO ANSWER
>
> New DNS (nameisp):
>
>                        ns1.nameisp.info  ns2.nameisp.info
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> fenicsproject.org       NO ANSWER         NO ANSWER
> www.fenicsproject.org   WORKS             WORKS
> fenicsproject.com       NO ANSWER         NO ANSWER
> www.fenicsproject.com   WORKS             WORKS
>
> Anyone knows this stuff, please help me out diagnosing the problems or
> confirm the above, using nslookup or some other tool. Here's a short
> list of instructions:
>
> $ nslookup
>> server ns1.nameisp.info
>> www.fenicsproject.org
>
> etc.
>
>> I am planning to present FEniCS to a class in 11 hours, so I hope it
>> will be back!
>
> I'm very sorry for the bad timing...
>
> In the meantime, just use the IP address:
>
>    http://128.39.36.31
>
> Then click 'www.fenicsproject.org'.
>
> --
> Anders
>
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