[PRR-talk] DNS Issues at DSOP.COM

[Jerry Britton]

Right on the heels of my server upgrade/migration there are now  
intermittent DNS issues.

A few months ago an ISP named Frontier purchased my ISP, Epix. All of  
my domain registrations point to Epix for secondary DNS. Sometime  
recently the servers quit pulling zone files from my server, unknown  
to me. Now even the existing data (even if lame) has been purged and  
the server is returning "domain does not exist" type errors.

What fun!

Anyway, I am working on it. With this being Friday night, probably  
won't see a fix until next week. These folks are 9 to 5'ers.  
Unfortunately, I'm located in a rural area where there is only one  
ISP choice -- and they take advantage of that!

In the mean time, to bypass the need for DNS, fixes follow for the   
technically inclined...
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Under Windows... Edit C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts with  
WordPad.
Under MacOS 10.x... Launch terminal, as root, edit /etc/hosts with vi

Add the following lines...

216.222.241.56	kc.pennsyrr.com
216.222.241.56	www.dsop.com
216.222.241.56	mail.dsop.com
216.222.241.56	dsop.com
216.222.241.56	merchandise.pennsyrr.com
216.222.241.56	jbritton.pennsyrr.com
216.222.241.56	jwarner.pennsyrr.com
216.222.241.56	smallery.pennsyrr.com
216.222.241.56	lreynolds.pennsyrr.com

Save. You may need to reboot.
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Jerry Britton, president            jbritton at dsop.com
Merchandise Service            717-938-4270
A Division of Desktop Solutions of Pennsylvania, Inc.
https://merchandise.pennsyrr.com