Websites Still working
I sat down with the laptop this morning and tried to access www.kpgraham.com. It timed out and I figured that I still had some work to do.
It turns out that I had been experimenting with my hosts file trying to force access to the domain and I had done it wrong. I cleared out the hosts file and reset the dns cache. It worked just fine.
One of the things that concerns me is that Cloudflare “flattens” my “CNAME” dns entry to point directly to the IP address of my server. I worry what is going to happen when Optimum changes my IP address. It does that after power outages, or when the network resets things in the computer room in West Nyack. I don’t know if Cloudflare will re-flatten the dns entry.
For the time being www.kpgraham.com and www.cthreepo.com are working well and I will sit tight. I found a bunch of broken links in cthreepo.com and I am writing a program to validate my links. It will use the apache access control to report the bad links and requires some fancy programming. We’ll see if I am up to it.