Thanks for your feedback. No, I haven't blocked any ip addresses! My site has now come back! My assumption was that my site went down with GoDaddy and it took 3 days to re-propagate before reaching Thailand! I am definitely looking at another host (Ubiquity Hosting) and will transfer within the next two months although hoping Dolphin 7 will be released before that!
Once again thank you all.
Toni
Hi Toni,
It is highly unlikely that it took 3 days for DNS to propagate anywhere, even to the North Pole. I'm in Thailand also, and I run about 12 or so sites. I do all of my hosting in the US, and DNS never takes more than hours to overnight to get over here. It's been years since I remember propagation taking 2 or 3 days.
A couple of things about surfing from Thailand, is that the Internet infrastructures stinks here, and even sites right here in Bangkok timeout sometimes. It's just that True and the other providers over here haver really crappy service, and they experience DNS issues of their own on a weekly basis. Even if their DNS servers appear to be online, doesn't necessarily mean that the service is working. I've seen it with my sites as well. I might be able to resolve another site, but not my own. It's just crappy Thai networking.
Also, latency is a huge factor in performance. Pings to Florida from Bangkok usually take on average of about 300ms, which is completely unacceptable performance. The route usually goes north to Hong Kong and then crosses the Pacific into Los Angeles via seabone.net, which is the main connection between Asia and the US. That one link gets so crammed during the day with business traffic, and then at night, every Asian kid in the world is doing online gaming, and performance really goes to hell at around 6pm.
Your DNS issue was likely just a local glitch. Not to knock the Thais, but they aren't what you would call the sharpest tools in the shed when it comes to IT. I experienced the same attitude towards maintenance while working on a finacial network at a bank in the Dominican Republic years ago. I remember seeing network cables running across the floor, and I asked what was up with that. I showed them the wiring closet (pre-wireless), and how to patch one wall jack to another system. All of the "engineers" had this look in their eyes like it was magic or something...lol One of them even said, "You can do that?"
You're dealing with 3rd world Internet services in Thailand, that's all.
Regards,
Brian
