I've emailed the admin at kwsnforum, it's three years to the day that I last had to do it.

Edit: I wasn't able to get to Lunatics earlier, now i am, don't know if my email helped, no reply yet.

Claggy

My ISP is 'Deutsche Telekom AG'.

http://www.kwsn.net & http://lunatics.kwsn.net -> show me a site of my ISP with 'dns error'.

http://jgopt.org is shown.


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Cleaned out the DNS cache and I'm still able to get to both sites. I'm located in the Midwest of the United States, if that makes a difference. Try changing your DNS preferred servers to 8.8.8.8 and secondary to 8.8.4.4. That's what I'm using which are controlled by Google.

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I am using 8.8.8.8 as my DNS and still both fail

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As the DNS change propagates though the system it will become inaccessible in more areas. In windows you can do a nslookup to see if your current server still contains the entry or not. I don't know the commands off the top of my head for *nix machines.

> server 8.8.8.8
Default Server:  google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address:  8.8.8.8

> kwsn.net
Server:  google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address:  8.8.8.8

*** google-public-dns-a.google.com can't find kwsn.net: Non-existent domain
> server 8.8.4.4
Default Server:  google-public-dns-b.google.com
Address:  8.8.4.4

> kwsn.net
Server:  google-public-dns-b.google.com
Address:  8.8.4.4

*** google-public-dns-b.google.com can't find kwsn.net: Non-existent domain
> server NS1.2ASC.COM
Default Server:  NS1.2ASC.COM
Address:  63.146.4.70

> kwsn.net
Server:  NS1.2ASC.COM
Address:  63.146.4.70

Name:    kwsn.net
Address:  63.247.72.178

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Their forum is about the only thing that I can connect to here, http://www.kwsnforum.com/.

Cheers.

Since I added the dns info to my hosts file, I can reach Lunatics just fine.

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The 2014 expiration date was throwing me off for a bit. Looking up the info on tucows. It is their policy to set set the expiration date out 1 year when it expires and then give 40 days to renew it. After 40 days they nuke it.

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I again can't reach lunatics, looks as if Toby hasn't got my email yet, and Lunatics reappearing was a fluke.

Claggy

Anybody here to call it from europa ( German / France ) ?

jgopt.org (including /download.html) is accessible for me from the UK, on the same machines which still can't access KWSN / Lunatics except by using the host file fix.

same here from Holland !

... and from Switzerland.

I again can't reach lunatics, looks as if Toby hasn't got my email yet, and Lunatics reappearing was a fluke.

Claggy

I was just there a couple of minutes ago, and just posted in a thread.

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My host give me unlimited storage & bandwidth. So if the lunatics want a backup site I can setup like http://lunatics.hal6000.com or something of that nature. If desired PM me and I can setup some users for ftp.

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Their forum is about the only thing that I can connect to here, http://www.kwsnforum.com/.

Cheers.

That comes up for me, the other 2 URLs are still unreachable.

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Their forum is about the only thing that I can connect to here, http://www.kwsnforum.com/.

Cheers.

That comes up for me, the other 2 URLs are still unreachable.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there are two separate issues here. One is the actual IP address of a machine -- that is immutable and set by its connectivity via the ISP/organisation it belongs to. As long as you know that IP address you can connect to the machine.

The second issue is advertising the IP address of a given machine to the outside world under a particular name -- which is done by DNS (domain name server). A given explicit name can be mapped to the IP address as long as the mapping is known to the DNS system.

In this case it seems that the registration for the kwsn domain has lapsed, so the DNS resolution is gradually diasappearing as TTL (time-to-live) periods expire in the various DNS servers.

However, the physical IP still exists so as long as you know that (e.g. by putting it in your /etc/hosts file) you can still access the server.

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I am now getting a message to say Domain has expired. Is this the end ?

R.I.P. Lunatics ?????

http://lunatics.kwsn.net/
Is no more reachable for me from France.
Anybody here you can try it ?

thanks

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I am now getting a message to say Domain has expired. Is this the end ?

R.I.P. Lunatics ?????

http://lunatics.kwsn.net/
Is no more reachable for me from France.
Anybody here you can try it ?

thanks

It's only a flesh wound!

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Well finally a KWSN member has replied but still no explanation.

Cheers.

http://lunatics.kwsn.net/
This domain has expired. If you owned this domain, contact your domain registration service provider for further assistance. If you need help identifying your provider.

Today I got "domain expired".
I remember, some years ago we had have the same situation.
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http://jgopt.org/
Jason's site is not reachable from France since a week now.

Yep same here in UK. I can reach the website ok but to be greeted by a "parked domain" message so wonder why they have not just renewed the domain - not that expensive.

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I've contacted Toby a second time via a different email address, and got a response:

Well I did contact the domain owner earlier. Unfortunately the provider he is going through doesn't seem to have an automated way of doing things and he was unable to talk to anyone on the phone. So it looks like things might be down until Monday :(



Toby

Claggy