Is my favorite site down? or is it just me?
Today’s topic is a good one.
Have you ever gone to your favorite website and not seen any updates, or wondered if it was online? Well there is a wonderful website that you can use to test to see if your favorite site is still up and available for the world to see.
This website will check to see if your favorite site is still up and running, or if you have a connection problem to that site. Simply type in the URLl that you are looking for, and it will report the status back to you.
They have conveniently named it:
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com
If the site is up, it will report back to you that it’s just you, and you can know that your DNS settings are just needing a bit of time to refresh.
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Just what is this DNS thing I keep hearing about?
Out there on the intertubes, there is a thing called DNS. This stands for Domain Name System, and its very important to you and everyone else out on the net.
The best way to think of it is that DNS is your phone book, plain and simple.
To a browswer searching on the internet, it wants the address of the place that you are trying to get to. Say you are trying to get to google.com. Your browser really wants to see you type in http://74.125.67.100 but lets face it. How many of you are going to remember that number?
Here’s where DNS comes in. you can remember google.com right? well DNS tells your computer and browser that google.com = 74.125.67.100. Hence DNS is your phonebook to the internet. It links the address to the name of the site.
There are lots of DNS servers on the net, and sometimes it takes a while to update all around the world. Normally changes can update in a few minutes up to 48 hours depending on your internet service provider.
If your favorite website (www.dutchgeek.com) changes their IP address (phone number) on the net, its the DNS servers that need to update to make sure that dutchgeek.com has the right address. During this update, you might not be able to see the site, or might see an older version of the site until the change has made its way all around the world.
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