Re: We are up again?

[gary l meyers <garymeyers at juno_com>]

Sounds like aka membership notification

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 22:06:13 -0800 Barry Cooper <bjc3 at cornell_edu>
writes:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am starting to get killietalk messages again, so here is the 
> explanation 
> of what went wrong.
> 
> We pay an outfit called Dotster.com to provide domain name service, 
> which 
> costs a small amount per year. That tells other computers what IP 
> address 
> translates to the domain aka.org. Unfortunately, the paid period 
> expired 
> without my being aware of it. Dotster did not in any way inform me 
> that 
> payment was due. Apparently I am supposed to remember these things. 
> Anyway, 
> when payment wasn't received they dropped our DNS records without 
> notice 
> and substituted a pointer to that parking page that some of you saw 
> when 
> trying to reach www.aka.org. Unfortunately, here, on my computer, 
> www.aka.org has continued to work. That is because DNS records 
> become 
> propagated throughout a network of name servers and my machine was 
> apparently reaching one that had not received the unwanted change as 
> yet.
> 
> Of course, because killietalk uses the address killietalk at aka_org, 
> it also 
> stopped working. As soon as I realized what was going on, I 
> immediately 
> went to the Dotster site and paid up, having to re-enter all the DNS 
> 
> pointers. I also let them know that I thought it would be nice to 
> get a 
> notification on such things.
> 
> So, let's see if this goes out.
> 
> Barry
> 
> Barry J. Cooper, Prof. Emeritus, Dept. Biomedical Sciences, Cornell 
> University
> Adjunct faculty, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State 
> University
> Home address: 27505 Riggs Hill Rd., Sweet Home, OR 97386 
> (bjc3 at cornell_edu)
> 
> 
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