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Has vlemmy.net lost its domain name? (feddit.nl)

submitted 1 year ago by jsveiga@feddit.nl to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] jsveiga@feddit.nl 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It seems dynu.com is a dynamic dns service. Was vlemmy.net running from a variable IP (dhcp) address? Is that usual for lemmy instances?

[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

When I was still making personal websites ~10 years ago there were quite a few hobbyists who were providing free hosting on relatively big servers and I do remember they had dynamic IP addresses as they had the servers running in their homes and it was a bit painful to setup a domain name back then and you needed a dynamic DNS provider. So probably the fact that it's redirecting to a dynu.com page is a good sign.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This looks probable?

[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes that confirms that it's hosted in his home, which means likely a dynamic IP address and explains why the domain name is pointing to dynu.com. I think the good news here is that he still has the domain name, it's just his server that is probably down.

[–] TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

I just checked DNS sales websites, vlemmy.net is still reserved apparently. The web page is still being served half-heartedly and if I let it load a long time the post feed still appears, so I think the server is experiencing some form of critical error.

[–] bionicspud@lemmyverse.org 7 points 1 year ago

Not usually for an instance as big as vlemmy.net.