DNS FAIL: MyCougarLand.com (Classic Failure to Properly Update DNS Records)

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If you've reading this, and you were trying to visit mycougarland.com (or some other site) you should know that you were re-directed here because of a technical error on the part of the owner of mycougarland.com.  As it turns out, the owner of mycougarland.com failed to properly update their DNS records when their IP address changed.  As a result, when you try to navigate to www.mycougarland.com in your browser, that domain resolves to IP address 76.21.33.115.  This IP address, 76.21.33.115, is currently my IP address as assigned to me by Comcast.  If you are the owner of these domains (mycougarland.com, etc.), please update your DNS records to point to the correct IP address.

I do not know what mycougarland.com is, nor am I affiliated with it or the owner in anyway.

I suspect this problem occurred because of dynamically assigned IP addresses from Comcast.  Most likely, the owner of mycougarland.com was self-hosting his site (like I do) using his Comcast internet connection.  At one time, Comcast assigned him IP address 76.21.33.115.  However, Comcast is known to rotate these dynamically assigned addresses every once in a while.  So, both of our IP addresses changed and I got 76.21.33.115.  However, the previous owner didn't update their DNS records to point to their new IP address; so all of the domains previously pointing to 76.21.33.115 will now redirect to kolich.com.

Just another classic case of failing to properly update DNS records.

(mark@regatta)~> nslookup mycougarland.com
Server: 208.67.222.222
Address: 208.67.222.222#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: mycougarland.com
Address: 76.21.33.115

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A Silicon Valley native, Mark Kolich is a full-time Software Engineer, a casual entrepreneur, and a consultant for hire. A web technologies expert, his current focus is on building powerful and robust cloud-driven web-applications using Java, PHP, Perl, AJAX, DHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. His favorite programming languages are PHP, Java and JavaScript. He uses Linux, enjoys biking to work, loves building great software, and always writes elegant, readable, and maintainable code.

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