Houston, we have a Lift-Off

[Soquili]

DNS server lag Peter. I still get the old site as well. I think it took a day before a new site was available when Xara changed servers from their location to MAGIX a few years ago.

[Gare]

Hi Xara Folkx—

It's up, trust me. Dan at Xara flipped the switch at 7:14am NY time here.

1.) Clear your cache.
2.) Please be patient. The Domain Name Servers on the net all take different times.

Barbara did turn Google on, so at least the searches, if not the DNS, should be going now.

What we all would appreciate though, is that when the site comes up for you, to post that it has, here, and make sure you tell us your geographic location if it's not in your user data.

That way, we can sort of track how the site's coming up, so I can write a book on meaningless statistics.

Oh, I see that one of the nine circles of hell just downloaded the video tutorial. A new user named "Virgil" ?

—g

[Soquili]

Gary or anyone that can see the new site, would you post the IP Address your DNS server is providing?

Open a DOS Window (Command Window) and execute a ping command. See attached image. Disregard the colors shown as I cheated and used XDP7 and some transparent rectangles to color the text.

I still get the old site IP Address. By using the new IP Address temporarily we can assist the DNS servers to find the new site and speed up the propagation.

[Deltapete]

As Bill says, tried all usual refreshing tricks but still getting old site. Be happy to access the site directly form the ip address, thus circumventing the DNS translation.

Regards
Peter

[TimS]

Great Look, Great First Issue, Thanks for continuing the Xara Xone!!
tim

[Gare]

Bill, Peter—

All I can offer at this point is a small apology for the wait—which I'm not responsible for, but I enjoy apologizing as a passtime—and ask that you be patient. We believe it will be worth the wait.

Bill, browsing a website via an IP address with provide the viewer with scores of broken links in our case, and I don't want the "experience" we've all worked a month to create to be dampened. Also, I'm new to my job, and really don't want to get into the topology of a server I don't even own.

Fair? CMA, for sure, but fair?

Thanks,

Gary

[Soquili]

Fair Gary. I will be patient.

[ODdOnLifeItself]

Hello Gary,

Here (in Munich) the new, Boutonic Xone is up.

Looks great...can't wait to look around.

Thanks for the work. It's not mentioned that often, but the merry band of helpers that seem to orbit Xara products are certainly a very important fringe benefit!!!

Peace

James

[Gare]

Thank you, James, thank you Tim—

See? The DNS is coming up if we just wait a little. PLEASE don't ping the IP. As you can clearly see, it won't take you to the Xara Xone, but just an oblique server area that's useless to users.

It's not going anywhere, it will come up for everyone on Earth and certain rim planets within 24, and I'd like to usher all good Xarists to the discussion area stuck to the top of this new area...So we can discuss.

The tutorial this month? The mini-tutorial (called Tips and tricks)? What you'd like to see more of? Less of?

The Xara Xone is run by Xara, and it's hosted by me. But it's the community's resource, you know?

Let's hear it,

Gary

[zaphodeist]

Nowt here ... and Drwyd's link takes me to a log-in page for remote presentation