I know, I know, my site was down for a while. Many thanks to Susan for tipping me off.<\/p>\n
See, in order to see my site at all, I have to mess around with the Hosts file on any computers here in the house. Otherwise, my computer says to the Internet, “I’d like to visit www.uncle-andrew.net, please!” and my ISP’s name server sez, “Sure, no problem! It’s real address is 66.228.195.181!” and then my computer promptly loads 66.228.195.181….which is the WAN address of my router. So all I get is a prompt for a user name and password to manage my router.<\/p>\n
So, what I do, see, is I modify the Hosts file of every computer behind the router so that they all think that “www.uncle-andrew.net” is x.x.x.x\u2014the internal IP address of my Web server. That way, when anyone on this side of the router types “uncle-andrew.net” into their browser, they are sent to the computer on the network that hosts the site.<\/p>\n
Ain’t that clever? Aren’t I wonderful?<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, it also means that, if my actual domain goes down, I don’t know, about it, because my computers are hard-wired to point directly at the computer serving my Web site. I need to be told by someone out there in the world. And for all my (self-)perceived tech savvy, I am apparently not sufficiently 1337 to put a reminder in my calendar software to pay my domain host in time to keep my account from expiring. \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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