75ZT Community

Over the last few days we have been offline owing to a domain name server issue.

The domain name servers at dnsexit NS3.dnsexit.com and NS4 were down. Community uses both allowing for redundancy. It was unfortunate that both had issues at the same time.

Hope it is fixed permanently.

Thanks for your patience

Mick

Good to be back online, well done Mick and many thanks for the time you've given to getting the site back up again. No need to apologize, life is never perfect but the world will keep on turning.

Hi Mick.
AS always you came good again, thank you your time is most appreciated, all the best Arctic.

Didn't realise how much I missed this place until the last few days. Its the only rover 75 forum I post on now.

I was getting withdrawal symptoms..........no Word Association or Three Word Story.

Thanks Mick. Much appreciated.

Bit of clarity on why my Mac Mini and Powerbook could access the Community when nobody else could. I have 75ztcommunity.co.uk in my hosts file, no need for dns in that config. That was curve ball not remembering same .I spent some hours barking up various wrong trees. It was 16 years since I set up the forum and added site to hosts.
For anybody that's interested. Mac OS
/etc/hosts
add line, ip address and url of desired destination.
Overrides dns and maps to a new Internet Protocol (IP) address.

Very useful when setting up a new website for testing purposes without submitting to a dns service. Once all works properly and you are satisfied. You can then submit your website name and ip address to a service such as dnsexit so public can access your site via their Name Servers.

Oh what fun we have.