Evtripplanner Down?

[Model S M.D.]

The words of appreciation and kind offers from all of you remind me why I work on EVTripPlanner. Fortunately, it is back up now. If you're still not getting access, clear your DNS cache, or wait ten minutes or so.

Thank you for your hard work! Awesome site. Keep it up, you definitely have a bright future ahead of you!

 

[mark80908]

EVTripPlanner.com is back! I just checked a hypothetical trip, and made a real donation.

 

[kavyboy]

I also donated a few real dollars, and I'm a real cheapskate. It is my hope that Tesla pays Ben a small bundle of bucks and gets this incorporated into the basic Nav system. The current system is a borderline embarassment.

 

[1101011]

Just donated. Can't tell you how much I enjoy the site!

Me too. Thanks for all you have done, Ben.

 

[Nevek]

We best be careful, Ben is getting a lot of donations, including mine, after the site was down for a few days.

An unscrupulous person might take it down occasionally to stimulate the cash flow! /jk

 

[Victor Liu]

I just donated. I find the site very helpful. would be nice if there was an ios app

 

[RDuke]

Linkedin is reporting a new position: Ben Hannel is now Intern at Tesla Motors.

Congratulations, Ben!

 

[brianman]

Linkedin is reporting a new position: Ben Hannel is now Intern at Tesla Motors.

Congratulations, Ben!

Awesome

 

[Nevek]

Linkedin is reporting a new position: Ben Hannel is now Intern at Tesla Motors.

Congratulations, Ben!

Very cool! Some matches are well fated-not that fate exists, of course. Free will and the orcas!
(Now as long as they give him some elbow room, all will be well).

 

[Gwgan]

Again?

 

[ibdb]

Again?

I'm getting DNS errors trying to connect to it, too.

 

[SomeJoe7777]

There is definitely something odd going on Internet-wide with DNS. Several of Comcast's DNS servers aren't resolving some names that I know are correct, and those same names are resolved correctly by OpenDNS and Google DNS.

I had to change my DNS forwarders on my office servers to OpenDNS vice Comcast DNS to get things to resolve properly.

If you're having DNS resolution problems, temporarily change to OpenDNS (208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220).

 

[Tech_Guy]

The words of appreciation and kind offers from all of you remind me why I work on EVTripPlanner. Fortunately, it is back up now. If you're still not getting access, clear your DNS cache, or wait ten minutes or so.

Thank you for your wonderful site!

 

[whitex]

Earlier today I had problems resolving a few sites, and I run my own DNS server at the house, so it seems the root servers or some major provider like netsol or godaddy hosting the domains is crapping out (unfortunately was too busy to track it down during the day when it was happening). Evtripplanner is resolving right now, as are sites that were not resolving earlier today.

 

[ibdb]

There is definitely something odd going on Internet-wide with DNS. Several of Comcast's DNS servers aren't resolving some names that I know are correct, and those same names are resolved correctly by OpenDNS and Google DNS.

I had to change my DNS forwarders on my office servers to OpenDNS vice Comcast DNS to get things to resolve properly.

If you're having DNS resolution problems, temporarily change to OpenDNS (208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220).

I tried switching from Comcast DNS to Google's DNS servers, but didn't have any better luck. I added one of the OpenDNS servers as my third option and was finally able to get a connection.

 

[bkp_duke]

Works for me through a proxy, but not direct. Seeing the DNS resolution errors like everyone else.

The domain registrar (ENOM) has been having issues all week, so this might just be one more hiccup they are having.

 

[SomeJoe7777]

I think I found the problem. The evtripplanner.com domain is using DNSSEC to secure it's DNS records. The RRSIG for the evtripplanner.com domain expired on 6/22/2017.

Both Comcast and Google DNS is attempting to validate the RRSIG when their resolvers try to resolve evtripplanner.com, but since the RRSIG record is expired, they refuse to validate and return NX (non existent record).

OpenDNS is ignoring the invalid signature from the evtripplanner.com domain, therefore it resolves correctly.

DNSSEC analysis and validation from Verisign:

DNSSEC Analyzer - evtripplanner.com

DNSSEC analysis and validation from DNSViz.net:

evtripplanner.com | DNSViz

I don't know a lot about how DNSSEC works. I've used it before, but when I've done so it's been through GoDaddy, and with them you just turn DNSSEC on, and they take care of creating all the records and signatures for you, and update them when required. I don't know if evtripplanner.com's registrar or DNS provider is doing this automatically, but I suspect not. I'm betting that the records need to be manually updated.

 

[TessieEddie]

Thank you for your wonderful site!

To Ben Hammel: Sorry but your site is still completely down. Cleared DNS cache twice. Used three different browsers, Frontier DSL and AT&T wireless. No luck.

 

[rahs]

I have notified the site author, who will be looking into fixing the issue.

Can you notify Ben again please? I'm not sure how to contact him myself. I'd gladly donate some money to help get it back up. Planning a big trip this weekend - NYC area to LA.

 

[boaterva]

If you change your DNS to use OpenDNS it will work; I've used it for many years and it also frees you from the issues when your own provider's DNS fails.

Yes, the issue should be fixed but many users, schools, universities use OpenDNS and it's free.