Notice: DNS Changes Pending

[DanQ]

Please note that within the next 48-72hrs. you may experience connection difficulties to Apolyton Civilization Site; if so, this is the result of Domain Name Server (DNS) changes and will require your Internet Service Provider (ISP) updating its DNS records. Most ISPs update these records every 2-3 days or less.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

[Grandpa Troll]

And thank you for the heads up.

Just asking, but is this done automatically or do we have to contact someone at our provider?

Thanks

Gramps

[Solver]

It's automatic

[Gramphos]

...and if all goes well you won't even notice.

[DrSpike]

If there are problems can't we connect using the IP address?

[DanQ]

In this case yes, you could, though your browsing experience would be limited and only as a 'last resource' (it's generally not recommended).

[DrSpike]

I didn't know the service would differ.

And anyway, maybe you should still post the address since it would be better than nothing for someone having problems.

[DanQ]

Originally posted by DrSpike
I didn't know the service would differ.

Some services may not be (easily) available/accessible, or if they are appear 'broken' if you use the IP address.

And anyway, maybe you should still post the address since it would be better than nothing for someone having problems.

Still, we'd rather not. For those looking for it though, you can for example perform a ping on apolyton.net to determine our/the domain's IP address.

[Nugog]

Originally posted by DanQ
you can for example perform a ping on apolyton.net to determine our/the domain's IP address.

So your saying I should just wait for a day or two if I have problems connecting?

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by Nugog




So your saying I should just wait for a day or two if I have problems connecting?

Yes. We have experience from an earlier occation when we instructed users to brows from the IP. The result was that the IP was used for browsing the site for years. One of the purpouses of DNS is to allow changing of the server a given address leads to. If users that don't know how to fetch information on an IP-address, or even don't know what an IP address is are instructed to brows from such an address experience show that they will update their bookmarks, and as long as it sort of works (with limited browsing experience) they will not change back to using the domain name, and in the event that we need to point the domain on a different IP (as in the resent move from Settler III) they will think that the server is down.

So, for short, if you know what you are doing, and how to do it, then you may use the IP-address, but we are not recommending it, nor giving any URLs.

[Nugog]

Originally posted by Gramphos
So, for short, if you know what you are doing, and how to do it,

That counts me out then........

[Grandpa Troll]

Thanks all for the expert answers!

I will miss Poly and shall decide to not look upon it as a sign from the gODS of Poly Palacedom punishing me for leaving the castle!

(slight bit of demented but otherwise normal Gramps humor)

[condor223]

It looks like the civaholics are already in withdrawl. LOL

[Gramphos]

Our host provider has messed up some information in the DNS records. This means that domains other than apolyton.net, civilization4.net and galciv2.net (which are high priority) might experience some extended issues.

[Gramphos]

All domains should now have the correct info, so the above scenario of extended unavailability for certain domains will not happen.

Now it's only to wait for everything to update and properly propagate among nameservers. If nothing has broken down for you by 1 am Apolyton Time, chances are good that your ISP won't have any issues at all.