Thought Outflux | Anirudh Sanjeev

I was put in the most frustrating situation for a few hours now. I moved my site from one host to another, and so I had to change my DNS records. I am living in a university campus, so I can connect to the internet only by means of two proxies. I updated the DNS and reinstalled everything on the new host, and tweaked the theme to my liking, and once everything was done, I went to sleep.

The next morning, I realize that one proxy has been shut down, leaving only another one to do all my dirty work. Turns out the dnscache for this proxy hasn’t refreshed, and since I accessed my site so much, the old host ip is stuck in the cache. Quoting myself in an IM conversation,

Effectively, there’s no [expletive] way I can see my own website while the rest of the world can. It’s like being locked out of your own home.

And to make things better(or worse), weblogtoolscollection.com, a weblog that I read regularly and admire, links to the OneClick RC1 announcement, as a release and people pour in, and I can only helplessly watch in Google analytics as my unique visitors go up from around 20 to a 1000.

After spending most of the day in the library, getting further worried about the situation at hand, and the sysadmin telling me it might be upto a day before the caches refresh, I had to go for the only option available: tunneling. I got hold of YourFreedom, a tunneling client. Usually used for activities blocked by the firewall, I had to use this software to use global DNS caches and see my site, and there were so many comments. I was exhilarated.

So I left a little update saying that the plugin will be released tonight, as it shall be hoping the other proxy comes to life again. As for me, I’m just putting a few final touches on the plugin, and preparing a readme and I have some amazing ideas for the next version which I’ll also be publishing.

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