DNS for all our servers

[GRITS]

I figure it is easier just to quote Stefan's email than to try and give you a synopsis of the changes.
Those computer geeks in our mist will appreciate the changes that HOLDOUTS is incorporating for our benefit, the rest of you will notice the difference when you play.

Thanks to HOLDOUTS for taking care of his clients
GB will you make the necessary changes to the website information please.
GRITS|VAD

Hello,

As many of you know, Holdouts has servers located at two co-location
facilities in Columbus, OH. One facility is oar.net (all the game servers
currently run there) and the other is enterzone.net (most of the TeamSpeak
servers run there).

We (when I say we I am referring to Holdouts and glorb.com - we are kind of
like partners) are in process of bringing in our OWN OC-3 connection with
Williams Communications Group (www.wiltel.com). They have a solid network
and even have a SLA for latency (less than 55ms anywhere on their network).
We had to purchase our own Cisco router (they aren't cheap let me tell you)
and enough spare parts to replace anything that could ever go wrong with it.
Besides the OC-3 connection with Williams, we are also going to have the
router connected via OC-3 connection to a enterzone.net router. This will
provide a mutli-homed (multiple carriers) connection. Enterzone.net has
connection with AOL (and couple other carriers) which is good for all the
RoadRunner folks (like me). This router will only be hooked to our stuff. So
all that bandwidth is for us. Besides improving our connectivity, this will
allow us to also lower our price per megabit.

So why am I telling you this? Because we are moving most of our servers
from oar.net to enterzone.net. This means your IP will probably change. Even
if your particular box isn't moved, your IP may still change because we are
going to shuffle people around. In order that you never have to remember an
IP again, we have created DNS names for the servers. So now wherever you
have hard coded the IP (ftp, game itself, gamespy, etc) for your game
server, you need to use the DNS name. The DNS names are currently working,
so please use them now. You still need to use the port numbers. We won't
change those if we move you.

For your servers on IP:                 Please now use DNS:

NS 199.218.8.89:27017               game8.holdouts.com:27017

TS 199.218.8.89:27018               game8.holdouts.com:27018

CS 199.218.8.90:27017               game9.holdouts.com:27017

Arena 199.218.8.93:27018           game12.holdouts.com:27018

DM 199.218.8.79:27015               game4.holdouts.com:27015

UT 199.218.8.82                        game5.holdouts.com

TeamSpeak                              ts15.holdouts.com:8804

Thanks for your support in this matter.
Stefan
Holdouts

edit: I am posting this in two places because only admins can respond in announcements and some of you may want to post a response.

[Gwarsbane]

Sweet!!!! I'll get to changing some of the stuff on the website today :)



* Gwarsbane drools over the thought of an OC-3 line...

^_^

[GRITS]

all of our servers except the 24/7 Arena Ricochet server are being moved and will be down until around 1:00PM EST.


Alle unsere Server, ausser 24/7 Arena Ricochet, werden auf einen anderen Server verschoben und werden ca. um 13:00 nicht erreichbar sein.