** Kelly Dunlop <kelly@???> [2010-05-05 11:06]:
> On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:50:16AM +0100, john lewis wrote:
> > Until yesterday (evening?) we were able to connect to our Geneweb
> > database at http://startx.co.uk:2317/Kingsclere without any problems.
> >
> > Just before 9 pm last evening my wife told me she could no longer
> > connect to that URL and was getting a message about 'unable to connect
> > to server'
> >
> > I was at that time still able to connect, or it seemed so, but that may
> > have just been to a cached link in the browser as I too get 'Could not
> > locate remote server' this morning.
> >
> > I cannot ping startx.co.uk:
> > ping: unknown host startx.co.uk
>
> I also get this.
>
> > whois startx.co.uk comes up with expected reply
>
> Interestingly the dates and Registration status from this may be relevant.
>
> Relevant dates:
> Registered on: 29-May-2000
> Renewal date: 29-May-2012
> Last updated: 04-May-2010
>
> Registration status:
> Renewal request being processed.
>
> Looks to me like "something" changed yesterday.....
> Have you recently reregistered the name ?
>
>
> Sorry I can't be more help but thought I'd point that out in case you
> hadn't noticed.
>
> Hope someone else can help you fix the problem.
** end quote [Kelly Dunlop]
Interesting that there's a renewal request being processed, but on a technical
level it seems that the nameservers quoted are not serving the DNS information
for the domain. I guess there's a good chance the two are linked. I see you are
registered with Mark, so it would be worth checking with him whether he has
made any changes to the DNS servers or domain record.
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