Monday, August 15, 2011

DNS for Version 99 is off-line

To alleviate some pain with using the commons-logging framework, I created version 99. It was hosted at the hostname no-commons-logging.zapto.org courtesy of no-ip.com. Unfortunately, due to lack of traffic I had to affirm usage of the the hostname once per month. Though this was slightly annoying, a complete pain is that I missed the last deadline, and that recreation is out as dashes in hostnames are no longer allowed.

As of 2011-08-15 16:11:00 GMT no-ip did credit to its name; no ip for no-commons-logging.zapto.org.

As 1) the current situation is disruptive for any version-99 user anyway, 2) there is a better workaround using the provided scope, I decided to not put back version 99 online under another hostname.

If you really need to use version 99 for some more time, just add an entry to your /etc/hosts file:

83.163.41.27 no-commons-logging.zapto.org

As promised, I'll keep version 99 for 5 years, that is until October 2012. Please check back here for IP address changes.

Update 2011-12-19: I just found an alternative with almost the same name: version99.qos.ch. It is a static maven repository with a limited number of version 99 jars.

3 comments:

  1. Provided scope isn't a better solution as it leaves the commons-logging APIs in scope when we want to exclude them.

    What's needed is a global exclusion as discussed at http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-1977.

    Do vote and blog.

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  2. There are few free DNS services around here. For example https://www.cloudflare.com/, there are few others as well. Could you move you domain there?

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  3. I could, but that would also make another domain name needed. No-ip is not going to give away their own top level domain. Given you have to change your pom anyway, you may just as well use the 'provided' trick.

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