The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area General Truck Talk My apologies

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.)

You got it going Paul, that's what counts. Cecil.......

Thanks for all the work you do on this site.

I had faith that you would return! Good job Baldy.

amen, your efforts and ingenunity are most apreciated. we could not be here without you.

Thanks Paul for fixing it, I thought something was wrong with this old computer. Now I can start asking questions again.

Thanks for your efforts.I wondered what was up last night

Thanks, I wasn't worried I knew you had it under controle.

Paul thanks for fixing the problem. Hard to function without a daily dose of Stovebolt. Weeds

Thanks again!

thanks for the fix, now my panic attacks will subside. ron

Thanks for all the time you spend on the Stovebolt so we can spend time here!!!

Thanks for all your hard work to support our habit - I mean - hobby!

No problem here. Thanks for your good work!

Small price to pay for the pleasure and practical help this great site gives us all. Thanks for all you do. It's awesome!

Thanks Paul.

I figured that you had a technical problem, and that it would be resolved before too long. Keep up the good work

Doug 57.

As the guys have already said. We really appreciate the hard work that you put in to keep things rolling. Thanks mate
Bob

Thanks, guys. You're far too kind.

As it turns out, it was something the hosting company did that fixed the problem and it just happened to coincide with my decision to revert back to bind. In the process of troubleshooting all this, I discovered some problems with the way the hosting company was providing name services to us, so hopefully we'll get all this fixed permanently.

thanks for fixing it, like others I was restarting my computer thought I had problems . It question and answer time agian. thanks Bill

Paul
Your work here is truely appreciated! It is unforetunet that we have some "technical difficulties" to be reminded of all that work that you and others here do behind the scenes.

Thank you!

Thank you, Paul!

All of us have become so used to "pointing and clicking" here at www.stovebolt.com that it might seem that we take you and the rest of the staff for granted. That, of course, is not so! We know that it is important to you to keep this site up and running and that you take it serious, no matter what, and we really do appreciate it!!

Thank you Paul an the staff, It means alot to me to come home, an come to this great site.

Baldeagle,

yeaup, I figured it was a loose wire somewhere...



good troubleshootin'... and thanks.

-W

Paul,

Like so many have already said, thanks for the many hours you log in - just so we all can get our daily dose of Stovebolt. Thanks so much for your dedication and hard work!

Paul,
Kinda funny that my day was forlorn without the bolt. Apptreciate your work.