[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Petr: > > > >>last two days I am not able to connect to AltME properly. It worked >> yesterday in the evening, but is not working whole day today once again. >> Anyone else got problems connecting to AltME? >> >> > >You are not alone. This is a me-too post! Exactly the same problem. > >Also, it seems that altme.com and safeworlds.com websites are down. > >I assume Altme has to do a request to altme.com to get the IP address of the >world. Thereafter (unless the IP address is dynamic), a session should work >without further reference to altme.com. > >This (assuming my analysis is right) introduces a single point of failure, >with a couple of (immediately off the top of my head) approaches to alleviating >it: > >-- Altme could have mirror servers, and look the world-name up on those >-- If altme.com (and mirrors) aren't available, the start up could try the >last-used IP address. > > Well, I was surprised of one thing - I looked at AltME rebol-view config, and it actually contains IP adress, not a name! I checked agains DNS setting using nslookup and IP was the same. So I wonder what is going on? Simply their servers are down or they have problems with DNS entries and it would not be for the first time IIRC, but maybe I remember it incorrectly and it was RT who had problems with DNS some not so long time ago?
-pekr- >Altme is so useful, that it is really annoying when it doesn't work. I >shouldn't really complain though: it's free (at least the way I use it) so I'm >certainly getting value for money, > >Sunanda. > > -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.
