What happened to the other orchid board

[Jayfar]

orchidgeeks.com has gone missing as of today. The hostname doesn't resolve in DNS at all. The domain hasn't expired with the registrar (although they will need to renew in August). Anyone hear anything? I wonder if maybe they're just in the midst of a move to a new provider.

[Leafmite]

I have no idea. I would have thought that the administrators would have given some warning if they were going offline to make changes but I didn't see any notice of any type. It seems rather sudden.
leafmite

[Daethen]

I have been wondering as well. I miss my fellow geeks.

[Medelia]

Me too, I've been trying to access it all day!

[Norris]

I've been trying to access the other forum also. I found this post, so I joined this forum. Its nice to see some of the geeks here too!

[RosieC]

I don't use that one, but I've just tried and I get a Database Error.

I think it looks like their server could have crashed, or be having other problems. I know it's happened here before and it's taken a while to get fixed.

I would guess keep trying and hopefully it will re-appear once they sort the problems.

[Jayfar]

Originally Posted by RosieC

I don't use that one, but I've just tried and I get a Database Error.

I think it looks like their server could have crashed, or be having other problems. I know it's happened here before and it's taken a while to get fixed.

I would guess keep trying and hopefully it will re-appear once they sort the problems.

Yep, looks like it's a work in progress. Yesterday there where no DNS records. Today the whois info shows different nameservers at the same provider and DNS does resolve – to a different IP address than it used to, but at the same provider.

jayfars-imac:~ Jayfar$ dig www.orchidgeeks.com +trace

; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> www.orchidgeeks.com +trace
;; global options: +cmd
. 79887 IN NS f.root-servers.net.
. 79887 IN NS g.root-servers.net.
. 79887 IN NS i.root-servers.net.
. 79887 IN NS h.root-servers.net.
. 79887 IN NS j.root-servers.net.
. 79887 IN NS l.root-servers.net.
. 79887 IN NS d.root-servers.net.
. 79887 IN NS a.root-servers.net.
. 79887 IN NS m.root-servers.net.
. 79887 IN NS e.root-servers.net.
. 79887 IN NS k.root-servers.net.
. 79887 IN NS c.root-servers.net.
. 79887 IN NS b.root-servers.net.
;; Received 228 bytes from 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) in 40 ms

com. 172800 IN NS a.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS b.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS c.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS d.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS e.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS f.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS g.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS h.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS i.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS j.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS k.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS l.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS m.gtld-servers.net.
;; Received 497 bytes from 128.63.2.53#53(h.root-servers.net) in 38 ms

orchidgeeks.com. 172800 IN NS ns11.fadns.com.
orchidgeeks.com. 172800 IN NS ns12.fadns.com.
;; Received 113 bytes from 192.54.112.30#53(h.gtld-servers.net) in 131 ms

www.orchidgeeks.com. 14400 IN CNAME orchidgeeks.com.
orchidgeeks.com. 14400 IN A 74.118.194.92
orchidgeeks.com. 86400 IN NS ns11.fadns.com.
orchidgeeks.com. 86400 IN NS ns12.fadns.com.
;; Received 143 bytes from 74.118.194.93#53(ns12.fadns.com) in 43 ms

[Jayfar]

The Orchid Geeks site is back up now.

[Medelia]

Great! XD I still can't access it...

[BikerDoc5968]

Not to change the direction of this thread, but.... While I love this forum and would never think of leaving unless asked to do so.... hope that never happens... have any of you used RV-Orchidworks? And if so might you share your thoughts?