Pinboard.in is down and DNS has expired

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by theshrike79 • 5 years ago

40 20 5 years ago

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JimWestergren2• 5 years ago

I wrote a DM to him on twitter this morning.

theshrike793• 5 years ago

Might be a while before they respond: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1476079701978345472

Dec 29, 2021: Alright, I'm going to take a year off the twitters and see what else I can do with the time. Follow @idlewords for blog post notifications, http://blog.pinboard.in for actual Pinboard stuff.

All good an nice, but the blog is down too =)

JimWestergren2• 5 years ago

Yeah... Sent him an email now as well. Somebody in the US that could text or call him? Number here https://twitter.com/Pinboard - maybe he does not even know.

2YwaZHXV• 5 years ago

I was able to get to the blog with https://blog.pinboard.in/ instead of http://blog.pinboard.in/

thaumaturgy• 5 years ago

It dropped out somewhere around 0200 PST. If you haven't downloaded your bookmarks in a while and this outage has reminded you of that, you can still reach it at 64.62.134.190.

ZetaZero4• 5 years ago

64.62.134.190 is returning for me "You are not in the right place "

sac2171• 5 years ago

I believe you would need to add it to your local dns host configuration.

For example (on a mac): https://setapp.com/how-to/edit-mac-hosts-file

64.62.134.190 pinboard.in

smoyer• 5 years ago

How exactly does one download their bookmarks?

TrueGeek• 5 years ago

Settings > Backup

ZetaZero4• 5 years ago

Might as well ask, what are the pinboard alternatives?

theshrike793• 5 years ago

I moved to pinboard because it WAS the alternative :D I use Pocket because it's made by one person who clearly was passionate about it and it has been running without fault for years.

The closest alternative might be Pocket[0], it's a "part of the Mozilla family of products".

[0] https://getpocket.com/en/

syncbehind2• 5 years ago

I use Pocket because it's made by one person who clearly was passionate about it and it has been running without fault for years.

Did you mean you use Pinboard because it's made by one person? Or is it the same case w/ Pocket? That'd be news to me!

r721• 5 years ago

https://raindrop.io/

https://www.diigo.com/

jml7c5• 5 years ago

As someone on Twitter noticed, his most recent post on HN[1] is in a relevant thread:

idlewords 4 days ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Why might you run your own DNS server?

Perhaps he was swayed by Julia Evans's blog post, and this downtime is part of the journey to DNS nirvana.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29818160

syncbehind2• 5 years ago

I would hope that he wouldn't do that so abruptly w/o any notice to his users. That's disconcerting.

nacs• 5 years ago

Amusing coincidence I think -- that linked article is about switching your home network's DNS resolver to your own (not switching to your own DNS server for your website).

Based on whois info, it looks like he's using the DNSMadeEasy service for Pinboard's DNS.

ZetaZero4• 5 years ago

And it is now up for me.

jefurii• 5 years ago

Working for me as well.

Pinboard.in is down and DNS has expired

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