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World’s Youngest Blogger: Doggone Right, This Blog Works!

Posted on | September 6, 2012 | 27 Comments

There has been some recent wincing about over the registration of theothermccain.com. The vig was paid on time, I am informed. The Domain Name Servers (DNS) are apparently taking their own sweet time about propagating the update, so that theothermccain.com in your web browser becomes http://86.75.3.09 for your browser’s sake.

I’m a teenager, now at thirteen months, but some things are admittedly beyond my powers. I can recommend Huggies, for the terminally incontinent. Other than that, one must be patient; DNS moves in mysterious, slow, bureaucratic ways.

Category: World's Youngest Blogger

Comments

27 Responses to “World’s Youngest Blogger: Doggone Right, This Blog Works!”

  1. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    September 6th, 2012 @ 9:43 pm

    A mailed poopy diaper to the DNS sends an old Sicilian message.

  2. richard mcenroe
    September 6th, 2012 @ 9:57 pm

    Smitty, Deborah Leigh wants to know which of the Rules for a Successful Blog covers cute-blogging….

  3. joethefatman
    September 6th, 2012 @ 9:59 pm

    I can get here via my phone but I still get the error page on my laptop

  4. TMLutas
    September 6th, 2012 @ 10:08 pm

    Every DNS manager is horrified at the idea that all the DNS servers try to update at the same time. To avoid that, they all are set to update using semi-random times so no DNS server gets hammered by too many downstream servers at the same time. Literally nobody knows when the intervening servers will get their updates but you can roughly adjust it. A week or two before you are going to undergo a change, drop your domain TTL value to something small so that it’s frequently updating. This will be a minor annoyance but nobody will say anything so long as you change it back later. You still can’t predict when the new values will propagate but they will do it much faster.

  5. Mike Rogers
    September 6th, 2012 @ 10:13 pm

    Opendns is reporting 50.28.86.160 after refresh.
    Before refreshing I got “this domain is parked”, now I get a default apache page from an ISP.

  6. Mike Rogers
    September 6th, 2012 @ 10:15 pm

    Your phone uses the phone company dns while your laptop uses your ISP’s DNS. Try ipconfig /flushdns and see if you get a better result.

  7. Mike Rogers
    September 6th, 2012 @ 10:29 pm

    Ht or miss. Oddly, the reverse lookup for 50.28.86.160 is “host2.theothermccain.com”

  8. conrad6
    September 6th, 2012 @ 11:05 pm

    Name propagation to DNS servers does not normally go off-on-off-on several times to a parking site (which once tried to stuff something bad into my computer according to Google Chrome). You are important and visible enough that you should contact us-cert.gov or law enforcement if this continues.

  9. johnl
    September 6th, 2012 @ 11:09 pm

    Welcome back!

  10. sablegsd
    September 6th, 2012 @ 11:28 pm

    Sooo glad to see you back.
    That little fellow just gets cuter every time I see him.

  11. Stogie Chomper
    September 6th, 2012 @ 11:38 pm

    Domain servers never seem to warn you about the expiration date, they just shut you off. Been there, done that. That kid of Smitty’s is sinfully cute.

  12. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    September 6th, 2012 @ 11:51 pm

    Hawkins had the best tweet of the night.

  13. Charles
    September 6th, 2012 @ 11:51 pm

    Got the parking page on Verizon mobile this afternoon, but quickly cleared up and back to theothermccain.com.

  14. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    September 7th, 2012 @ 1:14 am

    Jennifer Granholm just a wee too into Barack Obama…

  15. smitty
    September 7th, 2012 @ 6:33 am

    That’s quite correct. We shifted from a shared to a stand-alone virtual server a couple years back, which was when the ‘2’ popped in.

  16. SDN
    September 7th, 2012 @ 7:17 am

    Smitty, looking at WYB and (I presume) Mrs Smitty, you are a most fortunate man.

  17. Bob Belvedere
    September 7th, 2012 @ 7:47 am

    Until last night, I was getting TOM on my laptop and desktop, but not on my phone. Then yesterday afternoon, I warm-booted the phone and I now get TOM again.

  18. Bob Belvedere
    September 7th, 2012 @ 7:48 am

    Oh, Smitty definitely married-up…and he has a guaranteed pass once the Germans rise again.

  19. Red
    September 7th, 2012 @ 8:32 am

    All is right in the world once more.

  20. Red
    September 7th, 2012 @ 8:33 am

    Oh the bureaucracy! So maddening!

  21. smitty
    September 7th, 2012 @ 8:42 am

    That’s actually the sister-in-law.

  22. Bob Belvedere
    September 7th, 2012 @ 9:08 am

    A day without TOM is like a dog without a bone.

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  24. McGehee
    September 7th, 2012 @ 1:35 pm

    My domain is with GoDaddy. A lot of people complain about them, but they sure do make sure I know in advance when renewal time is coming.

    Even though I’m on auto-renew…

    Then again, the credit card was set to expire before the renewal date, so they had a good excuse.

  25. JeffS
    September 7th, 2012 @ 9:02 pm

    YAYS!

    And one would think that the WYB would have an iPad or smart phone, not an old-fashioned laptop.

  26. Red
    September 8th, 2012 @ 12:08 am

    Whups…

  27. Red
    September 8th, 2012 @ 12:09 am

    Or worse. I’d have to actually be productive on the job and muddle through an otherwise banal workday sans TOM. BUMMER.