Dear Huib,
Thank you so much for setting up the HTTP redirect to
wikilovesmonuments.eu.
As a demonstration of our appreciation: you might want to review your
DNS system, because your change is not being reflected anywhere in
Internet. DNS "propagation" may take time, indeed, but if you
query/trace your DNS servers directly, you can verify that it's still
pointing to a WickedWay server. Like Maarten, I was also getting the
advertisement page at that server.
In any case, an HTTP redirect is pretty fine, I would say, if you can't
change your DNS for some weird reason.
It's easy to understand why people often prefer DNS redirection instead
of HTTP redirect since in the latter case the owner of the server can
still record some information about the visitors (before issuing the
redirect) - please note that I'm not suggesting this is the case.
Many thanks to WickedWay for supporting and setting up this solution
while the domain is being transfered.
Details below:
$ dig
www.wikilovesmonuments.com @ns5.be | grep 'ANSWER SECTION' -A 2
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.wikilovesmonuments.com. 300 IN A 85.17.189.166
$ dig -x 85.17.189.166 | grep 'ANSWER SECTION' -A 2
;; ANSWER SECTION:
166.189.17.85.in-addr.arpa. 86355 IN PTR hosted-by.wickedway.nl.
Just in case:
$ curl -si
http://www.wikilovesmonuments.com | grep Location
Location:
http://wikilovesmonuments.eu/
...which demonstrates an HTTP redirect at the WickedWay server.
Thank you once again,
--
Nuno Tavares
Wikimedia Portugal
http://www.wikimedia.pt
Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que
estamos a fazer.
Participe também:
http://www.wikimedia.pt
Em 31-08-2011 19:57, Huib Laurens escreveu:
Yes but being stressed doesn't change hoe dns
works... Anyways I changes
the DNS and contacted WMF for transfering the domain.
Good kick during the month september
Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad
Op 31 aug. 2011 om 20:53 heeft noorse w <noorse.wikipedia(a)gmail.com
<mailto:noorse.wikipedia@gmail.com>> het volgende geschreven:
Huib
don't go there. Please stop. As Nuno said, people are stressed now.
noorse
On 31 August 2011 20:52, Huib Laurens
<<mailto:sterkebak@gmail.com>sterkebak@gmail.com
<mailto:sterkebak@gmail.com>> wrote:
I didn't think i needed to say this to maarten: a DNS update can
take up to 24 hours depending on your provider.
I really hate the fact that Maarten seems to use bad faith here...
Remember that I dont need to change anything... I'm trying to help
here and showing my good side. I will stop coleberating if I only
get bad faith...
Best,
Huib
Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad
Op 31 aug. 2011 om 20:44 heeft noorse w
<<mailto:noorse.wikipedia@gmail.com>noorse.wikipedia@gmail.com
<mailto:noorse.wikipedia@gmail.com>> het volgende geschreven:
Which big advertisement? I haven't seen
that any of the times
I've opened this website - and can't see it now either. The only
thing I see there is the header - identical to the one on the
.eu-site - and I don't expect that is something you want to get
rid of?
noorse
On 31 August 2011 20:33, Maarten Dammers
<<mailto:maarten@mdammers.nl><mailto:maarten@mdammers.nl>maarten@mdammers.nl
<mailto:maarten@mdammers.nl>> wrote:
Hi Noorse,
Op 31-8-2011 20:30, noorse w schreef:
I'm not sure we're talking about
the same thing here :)
When I go on
<http://www.wikilovesmonuments.com><http://www.wikilovesmonuments.com>www.wikilovesmonuments.com
<http://www.wikilovesmonuments.com>, I am sent to the
.eu-site as far as I can see.
Do you see the big advertisement at
the top? That's not ours,
that's on Huib's site. Below that you'll see the normal site
(iframe)
As I open the latest blogpost, I'm
sent on to
<http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu/2011/08/31/wiki-loves-monuments-only-one-day-left/><http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu/2011/08/31/wiki-loves-monuments-only-one-day-left/>http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu/2011/08/31/wiki-loves-monuments-only-one-day-left/
Wasn't that what this all is about?
No, the point is to get
rid of the advertisement and just
make it a redirect.
Maarten
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