Reachabilty problems of the last few days

January 11, 2009 in Daily Life

work-in-progress

I noticed pretty strange DNS issues within the last few days. Since this site is connected through a DSL link with dynamic IP addresses, it has to update the A-Record every day. The last few years that worked very reliable to me, but all of a sudden became unreliable. The A-Record still gets updated (just lookup www.chrisk.de at ns.inwx.de), but your (yeah your!!!) providers DNS caches somehow do not notice the changes. The Google/Yahoo/whatever Crawlers can still index me. I got reports of T-Online DSL, Arcor DSL, Alice DSL and AT&T Cable users that this site is unreachable.

I ordered a new server and will move the site to a real data-center (e.g. not my flat) soon.