GimpChat out?

[trandoductin]

So exactly how are these guests getting to the site? some black magic going on?

[david]

@Ofnuts,

You tell me that if I put two IP's only the first is used. For my education, what happens if the first server is not available - will it ignore the second IP?
As I said previously, I am a complete novice when it comes to these things!

david.

[Ofnuts]

(01-28-2017, 07:11 PM)david Wrote: @Ofnuts,

You tell me that if I put two IP's only the first is used. For my education, what happens if the first server is not available - will it ignore the second IP?
As I said previously, I am a complete novice when it comes to these things!

david.

I don't think there are two servers. It is more likely one server with two IP addresses (possibly some networking redundancy in the data center).

name resolution through your /etc/hosts file isn't dynamic, it gives you one address and that's all. If the server at that address doesn't work, nothing will make it consider the other address.

[Ofnuts]

(01-28-2017, 06:33 PM)trandoductin Wrote: So exactly how are these guests getting to the site? some black magic going on?

Maybe there is a DNS server somewhere where GimpChat.com is still properly resolved.

[dinasset]

...nevertheless to me happened that after adding the second address I was able to access Gimp chat.
Strange animals the servers...

[Ofnuts]

(01-28-2017, 04:54 PM)david Wrote: 2-ton,

I don't have a Mac, but I found the following instruction for editing the Hosts file on the internet. I seems to be similar to the method used for Linux.
Hope this works for you.

How to edit the Host file on Mac.

Open a Finder window.
Select Applications from the sidebar.
Double-click on Utilities.
Double-click Terminal.

In the Terminal window enter:
sudo nano /etc/hosts and then hit return.
Enter your administrator password and then hit return.

The hosts file will now be open in the Nano text editor.

add the following lines at the bottom:

108.160.151.87        gimpchat.com
108.160.151.87        http://www.gimpchat.com
108.160.152.117 gimpchat.com
108.160.152.117 http://www.gimpchat.com

Save the file, close the text editor and close the terminal.

You should then be able to open gimpchat normally, as you have done in the past.

david.

A much better procedure is to:

1) make a copy of /etc/hosts to some of your user directory
2) make a copy of that
3) edit that 2nd copy to add required adresses
4) copy that edited file over the original /etc/hosts (possibly using "sudo")

because:
1) you have a backup of the original, that you can restore at once in case you screw things up badly
2) you have a copy of the modified version in a place that is more likely to be included in your backup procedures(*)


(*) because you have such a thing, haven't you?

[Kimba]

I have done all the recommended steps but the server is still not found.

[Ofnuts]

Can you ping it? In command prompt: "ping gimpchat.com" (do you et "unknown host" or is it listing an IP address?

[Kimba]

Command prompt? Is that the same as the Terminal?

[sallyanne]

I still get "server not found"