Yeah, about that server...

The server change I mentioned a week or two ago actually didn’t happen, because there were some issues that had to be ironed out with the new server (telling it to use eastern standard time instead of UK time, for instance).  Anyway it’ll happen over the next 3 days -- I just updated the DNS resolution for nodivisions.com to point to the new server.

What this means for you, fair and noble visitor, is that you might not see some posts, or some posts might suddenly disappear, because they got posted to the site on the old server.  I’ll eventually move any such posts to the new server.

In the meantime, if you want to start using the new server right away and avoid all that (not that "all that" is really anything...), you can edit your hosts file, which will be in one of these locations:

C:\Windows\hosts
C:\WinNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Just open it up in Notepad and add a line to the bottom that says:

212.13.208.64 nodivisions.com

(And the amount of space or tabs in between doesn’t matter.)  Then File, Save, and exit.  Close your browser and re-open it, and you’ll be able to see the new site.  Which is, of course, the same as the old site.  I made one little change so I could tell when my DNS servers get updated -- the new site has a capital S at the start of the "song of the moment" link (in the Fall theme, of course).

(If you use Linux, you can add the same line to your /etc/hosts file... but if you use Linux, I probably didn’t have to tell you that : )

Posted by Anthony on 4 replies

Comments:

01. Oct 27, 2003 at 08:46pm by lvu, Mom:

I handled that instruction but my really great message/question from today isn’t on this page as it was this morning (and it was a good question, too), just like you said would happen.  When I opened C:\WinNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts there already was that same line of code only it had a # sign before it.  That means that is merely information, correct? ok then; I don’t know why I’m doing this but it’s fun knowing I can :-)

02. Oct 27, 2003 at 08:51pm by Anthony:

Ha!  Good job mom.  I guess I’d already tested this on your system.  But the pound sign indicates a "comment" in the file; by putting a pound sign at the start of a line you disable it.  So just remove the pound sign and the line will take effect.  (Or, ignore that line and create another without the pound sign.)  I guess you’ve already done one or the other, since this post is on the new server.

03. Oct 28, 2003 at 09:00am by lvu, Mom:

Just wondering, by changing servers would this be the reason I can’t get my email?  Eudora keeps asking me to enter the current passowrd and when I do I get an error and ’login failed’ message.

04. Oct 29, 2003 at 11:15am by Anthony:

Yep, that is the reason you’re having mail trouble.  It should be all fixed now, though.

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