Dreamhost.com DNS zone troubles cause 350,000 dreamhost sites to go down for 8 hrs.

There is a temporary fix to get your site working again below

The dreamhost.com DNS zone is currently having troubles, so most hostnames within this zone are not resolving. This shouldn’t have any effect on customer sites’ DNS, only central DreamHost services that use the dreamhost.com domain (wiki, panel, etc).

We’re looking into the cause and getting things fixed up.

Update Thu Feb 22 03:18:44 PST 2007: The authoritative DNS servers are returning records correctly again, and things are returning to normal as cached answers expire.

To fix this is simple

If you are reading this then you probably already know what you’re doing. I’ll provide instructions for windows users.

Adding IP and host information in Windows hosts file

  1. Start->Run Type in notepad and hit enter.
  2. In notepad, go to File->Open and type C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
  3. Look up the IP below for the hostname that you can’t access, then add the line to your hosts file and save.

Example C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file

127.0.0.1       localhost
66.33.201.141  www.dreamhost.com
208.113.144.20  lifesaver.dreamhost.com
66.33.201.130  panel.dreamhost.com

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