Brian Jepson’s Weblog

Way back when, I registered jepstone.net with Network Solutions. It used to be kind of tricky to deal with them: I remember having to fax a lot of stuff at one point to make some changes. It’s a bit easier right now, since they have a web interface that’s pretty decent for maintaining your domain name.

It’s basically a matter of changing your Designated DNS servers from your old hosting provider’s DNS servers to those of your new one (in my case, it was a matter of changing all the he.net entries to yahoo entries, for example ns1.he.net to yns1.yahoo.com). Then, the waiting begins.

It can take up to 48 hours for the new settings to propagate far and wide. The name servers for Cox, my home ISP, were slow at picking it up. So I tried connecting to T-Mobile’s EDGE network using my Treo as a bridge, and I found that T-Mobile’s DNS was up-to-date. So, I used that to test out my links (Yahoo! also gave me a domain name that I could use during the transition, but it was more fun to see everything working with the real domain name).

So, I was able to start playing pretty much right away. But, I got tired of the slow EDGE speed and finally called it a night. When I got up in the morning, I restarted my AirPort base station (it proxies DNS, and was caching the old, incorrect entries), and everything was working fine.

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