Microchip seem to be having some problems with their domain registration. It started last night. I occasionally get the correct site for:
but more often get a domain parking page. To get back in add:
#fix Microchip DNS outage
to your hosts file. You cand just browse by IP address because the pages redirect to the proper host name.
On a sunny day (Thu, 26 May 2011 08:47:17 +0000 (UTC)) it happened Ian Malcolm wrote in :
Would not use that IP, but 198.175.253.160
198.175.253.160 goes togrml: ~ # host microchip.com microchip.com has address 198.175.253.160 microchip.com mail is handled by 10 mx.microchip.com. microchip.com mail is handled by 20 mx2.microchip.com.
grml: ~ # host
----------------------------------------------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ????????
Invalid URL The requested URL "/", is invalid.
Reference #9.856470c2.1306400285.147ed61
????
Jan Panteltje wrote in news:irl4pb$du1$ snipped-for-privacy@news.albasani.net:
The IP address I gave was captured by GRC's IDSERVE utility for
while the site was actually working! A number of other IP addresses led to the domain parking site. YMMV
...
akadns.net is Akamai, a CDN.
They are utilized to get content closest to the user requesting it, thus removing delays or problems (besides when a company lets their main domain name registration lapse for non-payment).
Thus the IP address of a site will be different depending on the connectivity of the user requesting it. Having different IP addresses show up is normal expected behavior for a CDN hosted site.
Having the companies main domain name registration go away for non-payment is not.. :-)
1721.b.akamaiedge.net.
That akamai pain is a relatively new one. Got acquainted with it some time ago when my ISP lacked connectivity to some parts of the net on the planet. In short, you give them your domain and they take care of DNS directing the referers to what they deem is the shortest cut (or whatever suits them best). So some of the time some servers (in my case many so it became obvious and I had to look into it) may simply be unreachable. And now since this about Microchip comes from many sources (someone here in BG also complained, I am not one of their users though) it would appear that akamai did eventually create a mess of their own (which looked like something waiting to happen).
But putting one of akamai-s IP addresses in a host file likely won't work for a long time, this is a pretty dynamic mess.
Dimiter
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On a sunny day (26 May 2011 12:41:47 GMT) it happened Doug McIntyre wrote in :
True, mine is on automatic renewal. I think if you do not do that, then anybody else can grab that domain name? Wonder what microchip would pay to get it back if somebody took microchip.com.
*AGREED* It was however a quick fix that got me reliable access to Microchip this morning. Its still working this evening, but assuming Microchip finally paid the bill (and forum use appears to be back to normal), it should be deleted from the hosts file by no later than tomorrow evening.
I only posted it here in case anyone was stuck needing data from the Microchip site.
Thanks!!
Well, the rules give the original owner at least a month to recover before the site is blown away.
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