[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>Petr:
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>>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?
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>
>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.
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>
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.
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>

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