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The Anonymous Mouse
October 13, 2007 | Technology
I often use anonymouse at work, and admit that it’s a great little site for checking that a domain actually resolves.
Here’s why you would use it. Say you go to a website and it’s all shiny and working and such, and then you change the domain name servers to your new host. If you check your site again you can probably see it’s all shiny and working still…or is it?
You see, when checking a website on a standard PC your ISP goes ahead and finds out where to look for that particular domain name (I’m sure you very interested to know that they check right to left, so for www.murphyz.co.uk your ISP would first check where to go for .uk, then where to go for.co, then where in particular to go for ‘murphyz’, and finally where within murphyz to go for ‘www’. Still awake?). Once it has the location, it stores that information and doesn’t bother checking it again for a predetermined amount of time, which for some ISPs is dynamic, others may be 2 hours, others may be 1 or 2 days.
My point here is this. If you check a site and your ISP finds out where it’s going, and store the information for a day, then any changes you make to that domain and where it points would go live, but your ISP may not recheck all of the little bits it needs to for day or so - which means you may be looking at the old settings even if you’ve updated them.
Your PC annoying has this memory function too, in cache, which you can clear sometimes by Ctrl+F5, and sometimes by a DNS flush (within command type ‘ipconfig /flushdns’).
If these fail, your best bet to check if a site is live and correct is to use a proxy service, such as the aforementioned anoymouse.org.
As I make changes to live domain names all the time, this website is extremely handy to me and my clients. The last thing I want to do is leave work on Friday night thinking a site is up and running when it actually isn’t - especially if there’s a press release or product launch the following Monday.
Now for the downside.
I’ve been using anoymouse for so long now, that this word has replaced anonymous for me. I typed an email to a client last week and used the world anonymous three times. Or at least, I used the term anonymouse three times instead of the correct word.
It’s uncontrollable, I just automatically stick an ‘e’ on the end of the word as I type. Added to the fact my spellcheck doesn’t always seem to work I’m sure I must have sent several emails out in the past with this blatant error, and even if I read a sentence it doesn’t look right to me without an ‘e’ on the end.
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2007-09-03 20:30
The best Scorsese fillum since Goodfellas. Entertaining, great performances, bloodiness ensues. Lovely.
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2007-08-26 23:00
Fun to kick back and watch, but the novelty wears off with repeated watching/lack of alcohol.
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2007-08-20 22:00
Absolutely pointless, but sadistically funny. I've seen it twice now and hooted with laughter both times.
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2007-08-14 20:30
Runs on a bit too long, and the ending is rubbish. Great effects, some genuinely funny moments throughout - and if it had been a bit shorter it would have rated higher. Good fun.
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2007-08-05 23:00
I watched this whilst laying in bed; amusing enough for a late night trashy comedy. Elisha is plenty nice to watch regardless of her acting abilities...or lack thereof.
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