tumblr custom domains names (72.32.231.8) are down (for good?)
Dear outages@, It would seem like there is no more any web-server at 72.32.231.8. This IP address was the IP-address that you had to configure your domain name with to have the "custom domain name" feature within tumblr. Currently if I log-in to tumblr, I'm told: "Please update your domain configurations for <..>. Learn more." With the link from "Learn more" following to http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/custom_domains. It seems like it's been a couple of weeks (or even months) as this has been the case, since my tumblr is almost completely gone from Google now. However, there was no such message in the dashboard just a couple of months ago earlier this year, so, this seems like a somewhat unannounced and unexplained downtime. Why unexplained and unannounced? There are no mentions of 72.32.231.8 on that "Learn more" page, only 66.6.44.4 is mentioned, and, for completeness sake, no details are provided for why anything has had / has to be updated in the first place, or when the old IP-address will stop / has stopped serving custom domains. And there is not much excuse for such information to be missing here, since 66.6.32.0/20 has been allocated for TUMBLR a couple of years ago (2011-04-25), yet it seems like it was never explained to the users at large that a change was forthcoming. Were people really supposed to change their settings when everything was working and when nowhere was it explained that a downtime would be forthcoming should a change not be made and the custom domain not re-configured anew? Well, just a heads-up and a rant, I guess. (BTW, it seems like the RSS imports feature has suffered a similar fate a couple of years prior, too.) Best regards, Constantine.
On 9/29/2013 19:07, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
Dear outages@,
It would seem like there is no more any web-server at 72.32.231.8. This IP address was the IP-address that you had to configure your domain name with to have the "custom domain name" feature within tumblr.
Currently if I log-in to tumblr, I'm told: "Please update your domain configurations for <..>. Learn more." With the link from "Learn more" following to http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/custom_domains.
It seems like it's been a couple of weeks (or even months) as this has been the case, since my tumblr is almost completely gone from Google now. However, there was no such message in the dashboard just a couple of months ago earlier this year, so, this seems like a somewhat unannounced and unexplained downtime.
Why unexplained and unannounced?
There are no mentions of 72.32.231.8 on that "Learn more" page, only 66.6.44.4 is mentioned, and, for completeness sake, no details are provided for why anything has had / has to be updated in the first place, or when the old IP-address will stop / has stopped serving custom domains. And there is not much excuse for such information to be missing here, since 66.6.32.0/20 has been allocated for TUMBLR a couple of years ago (2011-04-25), yet it seems like it was never explained to the users at large that a change was forthcoming.
Were people really supposed to change their settings when everything was working and when nowhere was it explained that a downtime would be forthcoming should a change not be made and the custom domain not re-configured anew?
Well, just a heads-up and a rant, I guess. (BTW, it seems like the RSS imports feature has suffered a similar fate a couple of years prior, too.)
Best regards, Constantine.
Not completely unannounced. From my e-mail archives on the 14th of June (3 months ago): "Hi there! We are making improvements to the way we serve our custom domain traffic and need you to update your DNS settings before June 21. For any custom domains using an A Record, please point them to Tumblr's new IP: 66.6.44.4 If you do not make this update by June 21, your custom domain will no longer redirect to your blog." With a link to http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/custom_domains. They also sent 4 e-mails previously regarding the same thing. -- staticsafe O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post. It is not logical. Please don't CC me! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted on.
On 2013-W39-7 19:27 -0400, staticsafe wrote:
On 9/29/2013 19:07, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
Dear outages@,
It would seem like there is no more any web-server at 72.32.231.8. This IP address was the IP-address that you had to configure your domain name with to have the "custom domain name" feature within tumblr.
Currently if I log-in to tumblr, I'm told: "Please update your domain configurations for <..>. Learn more." With the link from "Learn more" following to http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/custom_domains.
It seems like it's been a couple of weeks (or even months) as this has been the case, since my tumblr is almost completely gone from Google now. However, there was no such message in the dashboard just a couple of months ago earlier this year, so, this seems like a somewhat unannounced and unexplained downtime.
Why unexplained and unannounced?
There are no mentions of 72.32.231.8 on that "Learn more" page, only 66.6.44.4 is mentioned, and, for completeness sake, no details are provided for why anything has had / has to be updated in the first place, or when the old IP-address will stop / has stopped serving custom domains. And there is not much excuse for such information to be missing here, since 66.6.32.0/20 has been allocated for TUMBLR a couple of years ago (2011-04-25), yet it seems like it was never explained to the users at large that a change was forthcoming.
Were people really supposed to change their settings when everything was working and when nowhere was it explained that a downtime would be forthcoming should a change not be made and the custom domain not re-configured anew?
Well, just a heads-up and a rant, I guess. (BTW, it seems like the RSS imports feature has suffered a similar fate a couple of years prior, too.)
Best regards, Constantine.
Not completely unannounced.
From my e-mail archives on the 14th of June (3 months ago):
"Hi there!
We are making improvements to the way we serve our custom domain traffic and need you to update your DNS settings before June 21.
For any custom domains using an A Record, please point them to Tumblr's new IP: 66.6.44.4
If you do not make this update by June 21, your custom domain will no longer redirect to your blog."
With a link to http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/custom_domains.
They also sent 4 e-mails previously regarding the same thing.
Yes, thank you. I guess they did this time, and I did miss them all. With the first of these emails dated 2013-05-24, suddenly requiring to urgently make the change by June 21. How nice, giving users a 3 week and 6 day period during the summer to make a change to the new IP-address that has been in production for probably more than a year or two prior to any such announcement, urgent or otherwise. C.
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