eBay Bermuda

Bermuda now has its very own version of eBay.

GMD consulting launched the online auction site kitchensink.bm yesterday. Thankfully the Royal Gazette included the URL in their story today, so at least we can all find it. Unfortunately, this evening the site appears to be down.

Between kitchensink.bm and Bermuda Classified, you now have no excuse for not getting rid of all that old stuff currently going mouldy in your closets.

Comments

[The Limey on 24.06.04 at 19:28]

I'm still having trouble accessing kitchensink.bm from my Northrock DSL account at home, although I can get to the site with no problem at work. Presumably a DNS propagation issue that should sort itself out within the next couple of days.

[Robina on 24.06.04 at 21:03]

Have no problems accessing the site from deepest New Hampshire!

Robina. Another ExPat!

[Eric on 24.06.04 at 21:13]

If it is not working only via a DSL connection, then it could be an MTU issue (since DNS on the island will/should have propagated fully at this point with such close proximity and also the fact that they are all essentially piggy backing off of C&W).

(this assumes you are on XP)
Open a command window and "ping www.kitchensink.bm"
(it will likely show timeouts since you can't resolve it)

Then do "ping www.kitchensink.bm -f -l #### " and adjust the numbers (####) so that they start around 1500 and then drop down by 10 or so each try.

The "-f" will set the ping status to "fragmented" and it will throw an error if the size is too high.

Once it is low enough and successful - then you know what your MTU should be at to access that site.
You can then go into your DSL router and see if it will allow you to change the MTU there, or you can change it on your system.
To change it on your system, you can either do a Google search for the registry edits, or you can get a program called "DrTCP" and that should allow you to change it.

We had to do this at work recently - I think our MTU went down to 1450 or so - perhaps even lower.

Or you can just not go to that site if all other sites are okay. :)

[boxbda on 26.06.04 at 20:14]

DNS dosent propagate; rather it times out. Proximity has nothing to do with it.

Also, DNS never ran through C&W. Logic always had the ccTLD until MTEC took itover a year or so ago.

Most of the ISPs on island use CW in some form or other for connectivity or restoration but again, that has nothing to do with DNS.

[Eric on 26.06.04 at 23:18]

DNS in fact very much does need to propagate new name to IP mappings (and in fact is hugely related to geographical proximity dependent on network topology when looking at the speed of propagation of the mappings).

You are likely referring to queries, which do not propagate (it would be senseless of course) and yes, do time out for obvious reasons.

As for C&W, I stand corrected. The point being still of course that in terms of connectivity - all of the ISPs are going through a central connection and in the terms of DNS, also sharing up one level (just in this case it is two separate entities instead of my other mistaken single entity reference).

Either way - semantic discussion like this still doesn't let Phil see the page :)

[The Limey on 27.06.04 at 10:14]

Whatever the reason was, it spontaneously started working a couple of days ago.

[boxbda on 27.06.04 at 10:29]

yes, very much semantics. this is a pet peeve of mine when people say 'wait for the DNS changes to propagate accross the internet' or whatever.

the application of dns gives the perception of propagating but under the hood the reverse is happening.

if dns 'propagated' a change made on a server (presumably the one holding the SOA for a zone) would have to be pushed out to eevery name server on the planet.

instead a record is requested of a server and held in the requesting server's cache for a period of time (defined in a zones TTL). That's where the effect of propagation comes from.

check www.isc.org for full documentation. also, the ORA book, DNS and BIND gives good examples of this.