How Plurk Saved The Day!
This is a short post on how Plurk (and one user in particular) saved the day for me yesterday.
Last night I noticed that I was having problems with my internet connect. More specifically, the problems seemed to be related to name resolution. I was able to reach sites which I had very recently visited, mainly Plurk because I was already logged in and had it loaded, but was unable to get to other sites such as Facebook, Google, gMail, etc.
I was also experiencing some problems with my telephone and cable tv services. For what it’s worth, my ISP also happens to be my telephone and cable tv provider. I thought that maybe the whole of their services would go down because at one point I completely lost the signal on my TV and the phone started to ring like it was possessed by an evil spirit. But I noticed that Plurk was still going strong.
At this point I remembered a service called openDNS, which provides a service that you can use to replace your default ISP issued DNS servers. I thought to myself “If only I could get to their website!”. I pondered it for a few minutes all the while not realizing that the answer was right in front of me. What was this answer? It was Plurk of course!
Since I am a computer nerd by trade and hobby, I tend to associate with folks who fall roughly into the same category. I then posted a Plurk asking for the IP addresses of the openDNS servers. Lo and behold, in about 15 seconds I had a response from Live Crunch with the answer! It took me about another 30 seconds to input the addresses into my my network connection settings but as soon as I applied the changes I was off to the races with a fully working internet connection.
For most people this might not seem like a very impressive story but for me it says a lot about the people in Plurkistan. They are always willing to help out others with advice, information, and simple words. Just the thought of this made my day much better and put me into a good mood.
For those that want to add me to Plurk you can find me here!
PS> A special mention goes out to nethead for being the runner up. He sent me the IP addresses of the servers just a few seconds after Live Crunch.
Cheers!
~TheNerd
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