Comments on: The Week The Aggregators Died http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/12/01/the-week-the-aggregators-died/ Blog-Fu for Prince William, Manassas and Manassas Park politics. Thu, 24 May 2012 17:58:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Greg L http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/12/01/the-week-the-aggregators-died/#comment-90505 Greg L Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:45:11 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/12/01/the-week-the-aggregators-died/#comment-90505 Surprisingly, within days of posting this article I was dropped from Waldo's aggregator. And I didn't even think I was throwing rocks. Wonder what pissed him off. Surprisingly, within days of posting this article I was dropped from Waldo’s aggregator.

And I didn’t even think I was throwing rocks. Wonder what pissed him off.

]]> By: Tom White http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/12/01/the-week-the-aggregators-died/#comment-90457 Tom White Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:16:12 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/12/01/the-week-the-aggregators-died/#comment-90457 Greg; One quick way around the DNS problem is to edit your hosts file. Open the file C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (assuming you have a normal Windows machine) and add the line 72.249.14.136 www.blognetnews.com at the bottom, or top. As long as it is on a line by itself. When the problem clears, go back in and put a # in front of the line to comment it out. The reason you want to do this is in case the server IP changes, like it gets moved. There are some things to look out for with this, like read only bit and a couple of other things, so you should know a bit about what you are doing first. On a related note, I am looking at setting up an aggregator for backup purposes. I loaded a Linux CentOS box at home and played around with it. I had 5 or 6 blogs working, but decided to make a hardware change and had to reload CentOS. I have several hosts I can use, or just use my own Linux box. Perhaps just use this as a backup for bloggers, not a replacement for BNN. But I have issues often with it. We can talk at the Advance! Greg;
One quick way around the DNS problem is to edit your hosts file.

Open the file C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (assuming you have a normal Windows machine)

and add the line

72.249.14.136 www.blognetnews.com

at the bottom, or top. As long as it is on a line by itself.

When the problem clears, go back in and put a # in front of the line to comment it out. The reason you want to do this is in case the server IP changes, like it gets moved.

There are some things to look out for with this, like read only bit and a couple of other things, so you should know a bit about what you are doing first.

On a related note, I am looking at setting up an aggregator for backup purposes. I loaded a Linux CentOS box at home and played around with it. I had 5 or 6 blogs working, but decided to make a hardware change and had to reload CentOS. I have several hosts I can use, or just use my own Linux box. Perhaps just use this as a backup for bloggers, not a replacement for BNN. But I have issues often with it.

We can talk at the Advance!

]]> By: Greg L http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/12/01/the-week-the-aggregators-died/#comment-90451 Greg L Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:57:22 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/12/01/the-week-the-aggregators-died/#comment-90451 Looks like BNN is back up, but vapoliticalblogs is still broken. Looks like BNN is back up, but vapoliticalblogs is still broken.

]]> By: Chauncey Gardiner http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/12/01/the-week-the-aggregators-died/#comment-90448 Chauncey Gardiner Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:58:13 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/12/01/the-week-the-aggregators-died/#comment-90448 There is a service that takes all the news and averages out all the letters used in it and comes up with a "word" of the day that expresses what everyone everywhere is saying about everything. Today's word is, "Sesmatik." Now, don't you feel up to date? There is a service that takes all the news and averages out all the letters used in it and comes up with a “word” of the day that expresses what everyone everywhere is saying about everything. Today’s word is, “Sesmatik.” Now, don’t you feel up to date?

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