Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:25:50 +0200 (EET)
From: Bisqwit
To: <x>, <y>
Subject: Re: What's up with bisqwit.stc.cx
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, <x> wrote:
> What happened with your site?
> has it something to do with a registration thingy?
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, <y> wrote:
> What the heck is going on with the forums? First the stx domain was
> down, then there was a new one on .info briefly, linked from the front
> page. Now that one is down too, and the frontpage has reverted to its
> old version, but without either the new link change or the reversion
> showing up on the recent changes. Even says last changed on 2004-11-19
> 13:13:10, which is obviously not correct.
Had you been at the IRC channel, you'd know because things have
been explained there and there's always someone who can answer.
What's going on is that the ISP of stc.cx, nic.cx had terminated
stc.cx without any prior warning (due to expiration or something).
Yesterday, it was restored momentarily but then it cut again.
It is out of my control, so I can only recommend waiting patiently.
The nesvideos.info domain was a momentary solution, but because
bobwhoops didn't seem to like my decision (it's his domain) and
also because it will expire in September and he doesn't have the
will to extend it after that, I decided to not give it a
"new permanent address" status.
nesvideos.stc.cx and kanjidict.stc.cx are subdomains of stc.cx,
but I have no administration over stc.cx.
> What's the plan?
If stc.cx still doesn't work at the weekend, I'll look into
alternate solutions such as providing the address from under
http://bisqwit.iki.fi/ which I do have control over.
Currently, the workaround is to put this line into your "hosts" file:
194.29.195.223 bisqwit.iki.fi nesvideos.stc.cx
And then restart the browser.
In *nix systems, the file resides as
/etc/hosts, and in Windows systems,
it's found in
c:\windows,
c:\winnt,
c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc or
any of the hundred other locations you could only guess and try.
