Wesnoth.org DNS issues

Wesnoth.org appears to have DNS issues at the moment, resulting in the site’s address being impossible to resolve to a numeric address (IP) for most people. We are doing everything that’s possible at the moment to restore it.

UPDATE: Apparently, it’s been solved already. However, the new records could still take some time for some people to have an effect due to DNS caching.

UPDATE 2: My own evidence indicates that it’s not solved yet.

UPDATE 3 (Oct. 3rd): It’s solved now. Some DNS servers could still claim wesnoth.org doesn’t exist, so just give them a few more hours.

If you trust me (since I’m the forum administrator and all), you can follow these simple instructions to fix your access to Wesnoth.org’s services in the meantime. If you don’t feel comfortable editing system files or don’t have admin access, you can try connecting directly to Wesnoth.org’s current IP, 65.18.193.12, but this will not work correctly with the wiki and forums which use the wiki. and forums. subdomains.

Do note that what I describe should be considered a temporary workaround. If Wesnoth.org’s IP changes in the future, you’ll need to remove any hosts file entries you added.

Note: make sure to backup your /etc/hosts file first in case you accidentally delete its previous contents, which could cause some applications to behave incorrectly.

  • Edit the file /etc/hosts with a plain text editor such as gnome-editor, Kwrite/Kate, vi/vim, Emacs, and such.
  • Add the following line to it and save:
    65.18.193.12 wesnoth.org www.wesnoth.org forums.wesnoth.org wiki.wesnoth.org add-ons.wesnoth.org server.wesnoth.org coc.wesnoth.org replays.wesnoth.org bugs.wesnoth.org
  • Done!

An alternative is just issuing the following command as administrator. Notice that it uses >> instead of the usual > in order to append rather than replace the file!

# echo "65.18.193.12 wesnoth.org www.wesnoth.org forums.wesnoth.org wiki.wesnoth.org add-ons.wesnoth.org server.wesnoth.org coc.wesnoth.org replays.wesnoth.org bugs.wesnoth.org" >> /etc/hosts
  • Login with an account with administrator access.
  • Edit or create the file C:\WINDOWS\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts with a plain text editor such as Notepad (replace C:\WINDOWS with the correct installation path of your OS if necessary.
  • Add the following line to it and save:
    65.18.193.12 wesnoth.org www.wesnoth.org forums.wesnoth.org wiki.wesnoth.org add-ons.wesnoth.org server.wesnoth.org coc.wesnoth.org replays.wesnoth.org bugs.wesnoth.org
  • Done!

Unfortunately, I have no idea about Mac OS X since I’ve never had an Apple computer. If anyone knows more than I do, feel free to post a comment explaining the steps.

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