Anyone know what happened to it?
Seems down the whole weekend.
Gone for good or just technical?

It was up earlier today, and it's up now.

Gone for good? Oh, heavens, no. They won't get rid of that cash cow. Not a chance of that, no sir.

I lurk there sometimes

the conversation here is much more civil and thoughtful

there can be some pretty crazy WTF threads there

in short: Sigforum - adult discussion

Ar15 - juvenile but still can be entertaining sometimes in the 'hold my beer'-type train-wreck threads

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AR15.com? That one? I was just there. Up and running fine.

Ok, thanks.
Must be on my end then.
We are thinking that the server we use might be blocking some sites. Can't get into the CZ forum either.

DNSSEC root key rollover this past week has had some small disturbances in the force.

It will work out, but there have been some DNS resolving issues.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
DNSSEC root key rollover this past week has had some small disturbances in the force.

It will work out, but there have been some DNS resolving issues.

Absolutely no idea what that means, but thank you.

An analogy.

DNS (Domain Name Servers) are similar to "411 information) back in the old days of telephone infromation, one woudl call to get a number listing for a person or business. You dialed 411 and asked the operator, and later a voice recognition system for a number by stating the name of the person or business.

So, the phone number was tied to the name.

In a similar fashion, Domain names (like google.com, sigforum.com etc.) are the "human user friendly name" that people are accustomed to using to find a resource (website) that has a "numbered" (IP) address. Like a street address or a phone number.

The DNS system "resolves" the name to the correct "IP" address (number) of the resource for you when you type a name/website or search engine, and a link is provided that you click.

The result is the DNS (Name Servers) take that "human friendly name" and match it to the "number/IP address" to the "server/resource" and display that information in your browser.

Now, all of that is fine and well until trouble makers redirect or "spoof" the information and send you to a "fake" site )or some other exploit) set up to steal information or other not so nice things.

And the people/groups that are involved in making the Internet more secure needed to update the secure/encryption keys that top level DNS servers and other servers that interact with the top level servers, by rolling out security changes.

And as always, some of the "partners" in the process are/were not ready, so things get broken during the "updates", and it takes a little time to work out, either by need to get back on-line, or from users "raising issues" with things that are broken.

I hope that helps. Sometimes it is harder to explain without speaking "rocket surgery" to folks who do not understand (and have no need to understand), but simply want to use this technology in their everyday life.

Those who do this for a living, try and make it as transparent and trouble free as possible, but every so often, "it gets away from us", and makes trouble for the folks who just want to look at cat pictures or order some cool stuff off the Amazon!

Hope that helps.

Yes, thank you.

Yep. I also appreciated the explanation, even though I haven't been trying to access AR15 forum. There is a site that I cannot reach, but apparently everyone else can, and it has been suggested that my Internet connection doesn't use a DNS server that includes that name. I have no idea how to circumvent that problem. (The URL I try to access is "www.organstops.org", and no, it's not about body parts.)

flashguy

Put the IP address in your browser and see if it works.

168.144.107.22

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
Put the IP address in your browser and see if it works.

168.144.107.22

Nope. Got error 404, Not Found. Looks as if the browser is putting the "http://" in front of it--both IE11 and Firefox doing it. How do I keep it from doing that?

flashguy