MEFB Update: The Good , the Bad, and the Allaround News

The Good News: Because of the fire, new servers needed to be acquired, which means that we will all be upgraded. Probably,  no one will notice it as of yet, but the service will be better and faster.

The Bad News: The new servers are being moved to a new location. This means that the forum will get a new DNS. It will go from 64.246.60.110 to another. (I don't have the new DNS, yet.) Generally, it takes a while for the new DNS to update. I remember that when we moved michaelemerson. net to my server room in my house, it took a few days for the DNS to update. Sorry folks about the bad news.

The Allround News: Proboards is working around the clock to fix this problem.

And in case, you are computer geek, here's what Proboards had to say:

Some ISP's and computers can cache this old DNS information for longer than they should.

If the server is showing on the status page as online, but you still get the "page cannot be displayed" error, you have been affected by this, and must wait for your internet providers cache to update with the new location.

In some cases restarting your computer can help if it is only your machine which issuing outdated information.

If this does not help, unfortunately you will need to wait for this update to happen.


 

Attention MEFB Board Members

If you use chatango to chat at MEFB, you can still access it. If you need the link, e-mail me.


 

A Meme

Stolen from benobsessed and galileah_galile. I generally don't like memes, but this one is cute.

Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real places, names &/or objects, but nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person you got this from has the same first initial. You can't use your name for the boy/girl name question. Have fun with it!

1. FOUR LETTER WORD: Easy
2. BOY NAME: Ethan
3. GIRL NAME: Ellen
4. OCCUPATION: Electrician
5. A COLOUR: Emerald
6. SOMETHING YOU WEAR: Embroidered blouse
7. BEVERAGE: Espresso
8. FOOD: Eggs
9. SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM: Epsom Salt
10. A PLACE: Edina, MN
11. REASON FOR BEING LATE:  Entered the wrong time on the alarm clock.
12. SOMETHING YOU SHOUT: Eeek.


   
 

MEFB Update

Server 21, which is the server that houses the MEFB forum is now up and alive. However, if you are still getting "page cannot be displayed error, here's the information regarding what is happening:

Some ISP's and computers can cache this old DNS information for longer than they should.

If the server is showing on the status page as online, but you still get the "page cannot be displayed" error, you have been affected by this, and must wait for your internet providers cache to update with the new location.

In some cases restarting your computer can help if it is only your machine which issuing outdated information.

If this does not help, unfortunately you will need to wait for this update to happen.


   

MEFB Update: We now have a temporary board.

 In order to enable us to have a forum, the good people at proboards have been working practically nonstop for the past 37 hours. To allow us to continue with our posts, they have provided a way for us to have a temporary board. All you have to do is to use the same url you have been using: http://michaelemerson.proboards21.com. You will have to reregister, but when we come up for real, all will be back to normal.

Any new activity on this matter will be updated in this journal.