Major problem alert! Attempts to access http://lesswrong.com/ result in a timeout. If you go to http://www.lesswrong.com/ instead, it works fine. However, I totally thought the site had just been down these past few days. This seems to warrant immediate fixing.
This is a DNS cache issue, and I don’t think there is super much we can do about that. Either your local machine, or whatever your DNS server is, has the IP address of the old lesswrong.com server cached under the lesswrong.com name, and so when you enter the old URL it tries to access the old server. This will automatically fix itself as the DNS cache of people’s machines expires. We changed the DNS about 5 days ago (before that Trike’s server manually forwarded to our URL), so this should be fixed soon.
Hold on, I’m confused here—www.lesswrong.com is a subdomain of lesswrong.com, so how would that occur here? Shouldn’t those initially point to the same place to be distinguished later?
Bare domains are messy, and do some weird stuff. You can’t actually easily forward bare domains, and doing so requires some hacky stuff (which in our case is dealt with by SimpleDNS, I think, though this is all still Trike Apps’ territory, so I don’t know the details that well).
We changed the DNS of both lesswrong.com and www.lesswrong.com, but they might still have had different cache-expiration dates on your machine, so they don’t necessarily need to change at the same time.
Major problem alert! Attempts to access http://lesswrong.com/ result in a timeout. If you go to http://www.lesswrong.com/ instead, it works fine. However, I totally thought the site had just been down these past few days. This seems to warrant immediate fixing.
This is a DNS cache issue, and I don’t think there is super much we can do about that. Either your local machine, or whatever your DNS server is, has the IP address of the old lesswrong.com server cached under the lesswrong.com name, and so when you enter the old URL it tries to access the old server. This will automatically fix itself as the DNS cache of people’s machines expires. We changed the DNS about 5 days ago (before that Trike’s server manually forwarded to our URL), so this should be fixed soon.
Oh, I see. Thanks!
Hold on, I’m confused here—www.lesswrong.com is a subdomain of lesswrong.com, so how would that occur here? Shouldn’t those initially point to the same place to be distinguished later?
Bare domains are messy, and do some weird stuff. You can’t actually easily forward bare domains, and doing so requires some hacky stuff (which in our case is dealt with by SimpleDNS, I think, though this is all still Trike Apps’ territory, so I don’t know the details that well).
We changed the DNS of both lesswrong.com and www.lesswrong.com, but they might still have had different cache-expiration dates on your machine, so they don’t necessarily need to change at the same time.