The Stovebolt server has been unavailable for normal use for an undetermined amount of time. (The server was working fine, but the name could not be resolved. IOW, if you pointed your web browser to
www.stovebolt.com, it would never load, but if you pointed it to 66.221.101.248, it worked fine. It may have begun around 10PM CDT (3AM UTC) last night.)
I've spent quite a bit of time today trying to figure out what was wrong and have been in contact with our hosting company several times. Even they were befuddled by the behavior. In fact, I haven't heard from them in several hours. I finally gave up waiting for them and started troubleshooting the server. After a few minutes, I decided to uninstall djbdns (some may recall I installed it not too long ago) and reinstall bind.
This
seems to have solved the problem, although I'm not counting my chickens before they're hatched.
I apologize for the lengthy downtime. I have no idea what the cause was, and my uninstall of djbdns and reinstall of bind may have serendipitously coincided with something that the hosting company did. (For the better part of today, neither our name server
nor the hosting company's name server were responding to name requests.)
