A host is a host,
From coast to coast
And nobody talks to a host that’s close,
Unless the host that isn’t close
Is busy, hung, or dead.

My goodness, that’s so old it farts dust! Well, timeoff.org has changed hosts and it looks like everything’s running okay again. DNS is an odd beast. I can remember, way back in the dark ages, when change propagation actually did take the week or so that they say it could. The last time I made DNS changes, just a couple of weeks ago, my home ISP seemed to pick up on it in a blistering hour and a half. I had asked friends from around the world (what a small village we live in, eh?) to tell me when they noticed the change and, yep, it was prety snappy. But this time it seemed to take some days. So if you’ve noticed some instability lately, that’s why.

Once I get all of the administrivia out of the way and finish mopping up, I plan to write a little about why this latest set of changes was necessary. It was an odd, unexpected set of circumstances, at least to me, and there just might be some lessons to learn.