SurvivalBlog.com Disruption (use the dotted quad address 95.143.19.148)

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SurvivalBlog.com Disruption (use the dotted quad address 95.143.19.148)

Using a raw IP address, sometimes called a dotted quad address, is a handy trick worth knowing any time a website becomes unreachable through its normal domain name. Every website actually lives at a numeric IP address, and the domain name you normally type in is just a friendly label that gets translated into that number behind the scenes by DNS servers. When DNS is having problems, whether from an attack, a misconfiguration, or a provider outage, the site itself might be running perfectly fine even though the familiar web address will not load.

Typing the IP address directly into your browser bypasses that DNS lookup step entirely and connects straight to the server, which is why it can work even when the regular domain name is down. The tradeoff is that IP addresses can change over time as a site moves hosting providers, so a saved IP address is really only a short-term workaround rather than a permanent bookmark. It also will not work for sites that rely on shared hosting, where many different websites live at the same IP address and the server needs the domain name to know which site to serve you.

For anyone who relies on a handful of critical websites for news, research, or preparedness information, it is worth knowing this trick exists even if you never need to use it. Keeping a note of the current IP address for a site you visit often, alongside a backup way to reach it like a cached version or an alternate mirror, is a small bit of extra resilience that costs nothing and can save real frustration during an outage.

As of 20:39 July 8th (MST)

Hack attack confirmed by JWR. Survivalblog has been under attack since July 4th and they are "being forced to change servers".  Please bookmark the dotted quad addresses (seen below).

US Server = http://64.92.111.122/
Swede Server = http://95.143.193.148/

As I stated LAST TIME THIS HAPPENED, remind yourself that this is a good reason to buy JWR's CD archive of his entire site. It is only $4.97 on Amazon right (link) now and includes 2005 through 2011. Hurry, it might not be there long.

As of 20:03 July 8th (MST)

It appears SurvivalBlog.com is having difficulty with their URL again. You can still access the website information by typing the dotted quad address:

http://95.143.19.148/

If you haven't bookmarked this address yet, now would be a good time.  If I find out more information, I'll edit this post.

~OJD

Prior DoS attack info here, trying to post current info here.