[Elecraft] Elecraft web site

Fred Jensen k6dgw at foothill.net
Wed Dec 30 18:25:28 EST 2015


I think you have it Lynn.  In the late 90's, my employer had a contract 
with Wells Fargo Bank to help plan and execute the move of a major data 
center from San Francisco to Roseville CA.  As you might suspect, we 
became close friends with the WF IT folk.  It so happened that my 
employer had recently purchased Network Solutions Inc., then the sole 
Internet domain registrar.  At that point, they were updating the DNS 
network daily.

While in a WF facility in PHX, I began to get what looked like random 
numbers on my pager [remember those?]  On the premise that someone 
REALLY wanted to contact me, I began putting parts of the numbers into 
my Palm Pilot Zero [remember those?].  Mike [WF IT guy in SF] popped up, 
I called and asked if he was trying to reach me.  In a huge panic, he 
said, "wellsfargo.com had disappeared from the Internet.  Can you call 
NS since you own them and get it fixed."

I did, they fixed it but it took about 12 hours to propagate everywhere. 
  We tend to take things like the telephone and Internet for granted 
these days, actually we did then too.  They do occasionally have 
hiccups.  For the record, the Elecraft site comes up fine in NW Nevada.

73,

Fred K6DGW
Sparks NV
Washoe County DM09dn


On 12/30/2015 3:06 PM, Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT wrote:
> Based on the zone's serial number, there have been no changes to their
> DNS since July 2013.
>
> The zone has a 3 hour TTL, meaning that no provider should cache it
> longer than 3 hours.
>
> Most likely something just plain broke somewhere, and some providers
> don't have a route to Elecraft's host.
>
> 73 -- Lynn (who did this for a living for a couple of decades)



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