Out of the Blue

Heads-up, we have some scheduled downtime in the works. Blue's News will go offline sometime after 2:00 pm EDT tomorrow as the server is physically moved to a new location in the data center. Barring complications, this should be a brief outage, perhaps as short as 15 minutes. We will, however, return with a new IP address. This should sort itself out for everyone eventually, but eventually is the key word here. DNS IP propagation should be expected to take 24-48 hours to complete. The good news is it generally happens more quickly than that for most, but the bad news is it's possible it can take 72 hours or more. Apologies in advance for the disruption. Hopefully everything goes as smoothly as possible.

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Re: OotB: Heads Up
Mar 27, 2025, 01:29
Prez
 
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Re: OotB: Heads Up Mar 27, 2025, 01:29
Mar 27, 2025, 01:29
 Prez
 
😁

Oh, I just got booped...
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Re: OotB: Heads Up
Mar 27, 2025, 01:08
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Mar 27, 2025, 01:08
 
Boop
I love Fortnite..keeps thy little kids out of thy good games...
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Re: OotB: Heads Up
Mar 26, 2025, 20:34
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Re: OotB: Heads Up Mar 26, 2025, 20:34
Mar 26, 2025, 20:34
 
Prez wrote on Mar 26, 2025, 20:26:
jdreyer wrote on Mar 26, 2025, 20:06:
Prez you're awesome and get crazy mad puss!

You posted this hours ago, so it already might be gone. But if you still have it, please consider me. I have this game wishlisted, but am on a budget due to my new mortgage so any free game is greatly appreciated. I've actually made use of some of Epic's and Amazon's freebies over the past year.

Sent you an email from here
Wow, thanks! Stoked.
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Re: OotB: Heads Up
Mar 26, 2025, 20:26
Prez
 
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Re: OotB: Heads Up Mar 26, 2025, 20:26
Mar 26, 2025, 20:26
 Prez
 
jdreyer wrote on Mar 26, 2025, 20:06:
Prez you're awesome and get crazy mad puss!

You posted this hours ago, so it already might be gone. But if you still have it, please consider me. I have this game wishlisted, but am on a budget due to my new mortgage so any free game is greatly appreciated. I've actually made use of some of Epic's and Amazon's freebies over the past year.

Sent you an email from here
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Re: OotB: Heads Up
Mar 26, 2025, 20:13
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Re: OotB: Heads Up Mar 26, 2025, 20:13
Mar 26, 2025, 20:13
 
I know this site is on team Bald Eagle Live Cam, but please consider Kilauea Live Cam.
It's erupting spectacularly right now.

Here's another view.
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Re: OotB: Heads Up
Mar 26, 2025, 20:06
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Re: OotB: Heads Up Mar 26, 2025, 20:06
Mar 26, 2025, 20:06
 
Prez you're awesome and get crazy mad puss!

You posted this hours ago, so it already might be gone. But if you still have it, please consider me. I have this game wishlisted, but am on a budget due to my new mortgage so any free game is greatly appreciated. I've actually made use of some of Epic's and Amazon's freebies over the past year.
If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends. Slava Ukraini!
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Re: OotB: Heads Up
Mar 26, 2025, 18:50
Prez
 
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Re: OotB: Heads Up Mar 26, 2025, 18:50
Mar 26, 2025, 18:50
 Prez
 
I couldn't draw it from memory any more. Okay okay Sorry about being crass. We laugh to keep from crying. 😜 But you get first dibs until the end of time. If no one answers I will gift it to someone on my friends list who doesn't have it.
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Re: OotB: Heads Up
Mar 26, 2025, 17:58
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Re: OotB: Heads Up Mar 26, 2025, 17:58
Mar 26, 2025, 17:58
 
You can virtually eliminate DNS propagation issues by setting your A record TTL values to a low number, like 60, prior to the migration. That would cause anyone caching the entry to only hold it for 1 minute.

Then once you've changed the IP address in DNS, you can put the TTL back to the usual value.

I've changed a lot of internet facing DNS records for customers over my career and this is how you do it to minimize disruption if you don't have load balancers. The impact on DNS servers with the increased load is negligible if you're only changing a couple records.
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Re: OotB: Heads Up
Mar 26, 2025, 16:26
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Re: OotB: Heads Up Mar 26, 2025, 16:26
Mar 26, 2025, 16:26
 
Prez wrote on Mar 26, 2025, 14:25:
Hey I just bought Pacific Drive because my son loved it and the next day I get a key for it. The first person who tells me I'm awesome and that I get mad puss can have it.

Conversely, anyone who asks for it can have it. As always, Blue gets first dibs though.
You are most definitely awesome and I'm sure you get mad puss (I assume that means what it sounds like).

Someone else should get the game though, so give it to the person who seconds the motion.
Stephen "Blue" Heaslip
Blue's News Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, El Presidente for Life
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Re: OotB: Heads Up
Mar 26, 2025, 14:25
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Re: OotB: Heads Up Mar 26, 2025, 14:25
Mar 26, 2025, 14:25
 Prez
 
Hey I just bought Pacific Drive because my son loved it and the next day I get a key for it. The first person who tells me I'm awesome and that I get mad puss can have it.

Conversely, anyone who asks for it can have it. As always, Blue gets first dibs though.
"The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."
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Re: OotB: Heads Up
Mar 26, 2025, 12:09
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Re: OotB: Heads Up Mar 26, 2025, 12:09
Mar 26, 2025, 12:09
 
An outage? THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!!!!

Kidding. Hopefully the rack and stack goes well with no complications.

EDIT:

If, after the migration to a new IP, anyone has problems connecting to BN, you can try the following:

Windows:

From the command line run "ipconfig /flushdns"

Linux:

From the command line run "sudo resolvectl flush-caches" and then verify with "sudo systemctl status systemd-resolved"

Remove the quotation marks from all commands before running them.

I like turtles.

This comment was edited on Mar 26, 2025, 14:29.
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