[Fixed] Resolve issues with the EMC domains!

Discussion in 'Empire Help & Support' started by ShelLuser, Nov 24, 2016.

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  1. Hi gang,

    I think there's a major issue with the EMC domains, specifically their registrant. I tried to connect to the server & forums (also to vote) and my DNS couldn't resolve the name anymore.

    So I did a little DNS investigation and found the registrant and BuddyNS but yeah... I can get some info from accessing the BuddyNS DNS servers directly (this is how I got here: added the IP addresses to Windows' hosts file manually) but that's it.

    And this isn't me. I just tried to vote in order to save my voting streak and that doesn't work. I can vote, it takes ages, and then doesn't find its way back to EMC, and I suspect those same DNS problems.

    Houston, we got a problem!

    UPDATE:

    Further investigations tell me this is a major BuddyNS problem. empireminecraft.com is said to be hosted by:

    ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
    <removed>

    But c & d do not respond (timeout), h on the other end does work. But yeah, a DNS request won't continue trying other servers when a timeout occurs. Dunno why BuddyNS seems to think this way but that's not the way this thing works. And it would appear they don't got a legit fallback either.

    So much for making DNS reliable & fast :confused:.

    UPDATE2:

    C (main DNS server) has become responsive again, D is still down. Even so: c is primary so this means things should be back to normal. Which seems to be the case because my vote just came through ;)
  2. Yeah. Voting is not necessarily going to work nicely right now
  3. If you can contact Aikar you might want to suggest that he starts yelling at BuddyNS :/
  4. Trying. He is sleeping unfortunately... But we are giving it our best effort
  5. I'll whip up a quick cronscript which checks every 15 / 30 min. or so, then you guys can get a solid indication of how long this mess went on. Might be useful if Aikar decides to file an official complaint.
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  6. Thank you for the information you have provided. Sent a link to Aikar for him to see, since he didn't get woken up. lol
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