http://www.whatsmydns.net/#TXT/www.suscipedomine.com (http://www.whatsmydns.net/#TXT/www.suscipedomine.com)
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on January 19, 2013, 07:47:16 PM
http://www.whatsmydns.net/#TXT/www.suscipedomine.com (http://www.whatsmydns.net/#TXT/www.suscipedomine.com)
Just shows what countries have updated their dns records for a certain site.
So that means SD is being viewed or has been viewed in all those locations?
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on January 20, 2013, 06:05:58 AM
So that means SD is being viewed or has been viewed in all those locations?
It means SD can be viewed correctly from those people.
Let me explain:
Fer instance, suppose SD's web server is physically in Chicago. That webserver has to have 2 main IP addresses. Normally they are static (fixed, they do not change). Some web servers have dynamic IP addresses.( ie. they change their ip address weekly or monthly, or biweekly).
That said, a DNS server is a PC that updates regularly their list of Domain names to the latest IP address.
There are many DNS servers all over the world. Some are even public. Many are housed with each major ISP.
So say the power went out to the WEB server (and of course it's modem where it's connected to), and it received new IP addresses (in the case of it having dynamic ip address). Well the WEB server will send that information to its registered DNS server and the propagation starts there. The DNS servers slowly start updating their records with the new ip address.
Example: 9:00am Suscipe domine's IP is: 209.44.123.40
10:00:00 Suscipedomine.com recieved new ip addresses, suscipe server sends that info to it's dns server.
10:00:30 DNS Server updated its records
10:05:30 DNS server in Austrailia updated its records with the new ip address.
10:15:00 DNS server in Ubekistan updated its record with the new ip address
So in the 5 minute interim between 10:00 and 10:05, Australians could not login to Suscipe domine.
Because after they typed in www.suscipedomine.com in their internet explorer browser, they received an error. "Website cannot be found" "Please type the correct address".
But once they wait a couple of minutes, they will "magically" log into the website. (It was their local DNS server that their modems are connected to that just updated its records).
Now the above is for the case of IP addresses.
The same applies for any WEBSITE changes. (Regardless of static or dynamic ip address)
Example: when SD first started when you typed www.suscipedomine.com, you could not enter the main forum page. In fact, it gave an error.
you had to manually type in "www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php" in order for this to work.
Now that KK has updated it's website internally now it knows that even if you typed www.suscipedomine.com, it will take you to www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php
The internet websites are based on ip addresses. a dns server only updates it's "host" list to point to a current address.
www.yahoo.com= 123.254.658.521
msn.com= 266.324.587.12
etc.etc.etc.
The more up to date (minute/seconds) DNS server your modem is registered to, the faster it will be for your pc to hit a site.
That is why some people, (myself included) manually change their DNS setting inside windows and insert the ip of a very good public dns server that is updated almost instantly: 8.8.8.8 (It's the google public dns)
I hope I explained this ok.