DNS for all the 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
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.

[RushJet1]

MMMM OC3

Maybe this will improve my ping early in the morning?! There's really no reason for it being so bad

[Gwarsbane]

I have noticed my ping is up on the holdouts servers too. It used to be an everage of 50, now its 80s to 90s as it used to be before the last move.

I also hope the OC-3 will help my ping time.

[GRITS]

I am wondering if it may have been better for HOLDOUTS to shut down the servers while the changes are being made, I am sure some of these crashes and outrageous pings we are all getting are relative. Let's hope it doesn't take too much longer and that there is a noticeable difference when all is said and done.

[FuzzyShoting]

OC-3 is not a speed avalible in denmark... yet... i'm just wondering how fast it is ?
hmmm optical fibers ???

[Gwarsbane]

OC-3 is roughly 155Mbps (Megabits per second)

Roughly thats about 19 megabytes a second, or roughly about (4) 4 meg mp3s per second.



With a larger pipe on this end, your ISP can send things to holdouts a little faster so even way over there you might notice a slightly better ping. (just note that I said might)

I'd rather see the servers still up and running then down for 3 or 4 days. At least the good thing out of all this is that GRITS will be paying less. :D Or if shes still willing to pay the same price, she could open more spots on all the servers. (just an idea to keep in mind)

[GRITS]

We get a smoking deal already, I think this will just help keep his prices from going up

[Power and Glory]

Good news for me. Especially when I decide to rent again from him.