
Yawn!
Need we say more?
Somethingawful.com - the best place to go for something awful - is recovering from Domain Name Server problems yesterday that left the site unaccessible for many users. Its forum included six pages of annoyed users who struggled to get onto the site. It appears the problem was caused by changes to a DNS server at Network …
For what it's worth, we either think one of the admins was using his own personal password and it's been phished/guessed, or there was some messup at NS. I doubt we'll ever find out. Although, knowing how useless the admin team at SA (answer: very) is, maybe there was some network tomfoolery after all.
You can read some more about the event at sass.buttes.org - have a nice day.
Come on... Somehow I think that we are only hearing half the story here.
They are reporting that somehow there nameservers got reset. Okay... If this a fault of Network Solutions (who I rarely deal with) more than likely a massive number of nameservers on other accounts would've been also reset and there would be a *massive* uproar (NetworkSolutions still is one of the biggest registrars out there). But a massive outage hasn't occurred. Would a massive glitch at NetworkSolutions affect just one unlucky account? Not likely.
More likely is the user. I've dealt with users. I'll admit that some technology can be challenging. Some people deal with it rationally. Some people don't. Look at driving and the boneheaded things people do when driving a simple car. Some people refuse to own up to their own mistakes and for whatever reasons NEED to point fingers elsewhere (to save their job maybe...) and will NEVER recant or retreat (see any small-claims court program).
I *do* understand domain names, and understand every single aspect of how complex the settings are. Nameservers or A records, redirection services and web forwarding, parking pages and AdSence websites and portal pages, and the differences between what a domain name is and what a hosting package is. Some users claim that they are masters of it all (and some are) but it can be very easy to make a mistake.
I don't know what happened, but the statement "my domain settings got futzed and I think that my registrar did it to just me" is a bit lacking.