I cant speak for his script but the DNS servers are propagating now and should have new records shortly.

With the route errors, I'd presumed you were under a DOS attack by the spammers.  Good to see it's just GoDaddy dropping the ball again, and not something more sinister.

Excrement happens to everyone, sooner or later.

I too thought it was a DOS attack! Glad to see it was nothing serious and the downtime wasn't longer.

Perhaps adding a couple extra DNS servers not hosted by godaddy would prevent such an issue in the future? I run my own on my server, never cared much for hosting companies clunky web interfaces with limited DNS features.

I wouldn't mind serving DNS for you guys if you would like a little extra redundancy. Just email me if you're interested. Least I can do to give back to the site that helps keep spammers off my forum.

Not the first time GoDaddy has monkeyed with our domain.

Good move. I have never trusted GoDaddy.

*Zaphod swears by dyndns.org and their 5-9s uptime.

Zap

Just in case you didn't know,
my automated submissions haven't been working for nearly 24 hours now, and I tried to manually submit through the submission URL, and it doesn't seem to be working .

http://www.stopforumspam.com/post.php?username=TienOlitlywen&ip_addr=61.90.150.251&email=difeozipilnxvdowxidaj041@gmail.com&api_key=<my_api_key>

manual submissions through the submit page seems to be OK though .

and yes... GoDaddy sux .

pedigree, it can take up to 3 days (max) for a DNS change to propagate to   all of the servers around the world, although most of it happens within the first 6 to 8 hours after a change.  Until it's completely propagated to all servers, connection errors can come and go.

My provider still does not have its dns updated. I looked up the IP here: http://www.who.is/dns/stopforumspam.com/ and had to edit the hosts file in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc to be able to access sfs, it contains now:

208.91.135.54   www.stopforumspam.com

Whew, what a relief!!!
Like many others, I thought you were under a DOS attack and co-incidentally I was locked out of the forum I administer saying that my account had not been approved. I am using SMF forum prg with a Mod that refers to here for all new members and I was in the process of checking for further details when my forum went down.
It appears that I must have been connected just when the balloon went up and the site went down. It took me 6 hours to get back in but I learnt a lot more about MySQL so it wasn't all bad.
Keep up the good fight!!!

Last edited by lyndonaus (2010-02-04 6:49 pm)

I did the same thing. I flushed my DNS cache first but that didn't work so I edited the hosts file. It took correspondence from the leadership here for me to figure out what was up with the server.

did you change post.php to add.php?

email me your forums ip number and Ill check the logs

add.pgp used to post to post.php internally but we had another dns failure one day so I quickly fix it.  add.php and post.php have pretty much the same code, and in the new site, will be exactly the same, where you can GET or POST to both but both will remain for legacy reasons.