Weblogs.com Cutover
This Thursday (10/20/05) VeriSign will be switching over the weblogs.com ping service to an upgraded system. The new platform will offer much better performance and reliability for the service. The service will function the same way it always has, with the following exceptions:
- IP Addresses for the servers have changed. You should not be using hardwired IP addresses to access the weblogs.com ping service – the correct way is to use the DNS server names – but if you are connecting by IP address, these will change on Thursday morning.
- Duplicate Pings will be ignored, rather than rejected. Previously, there were time limitations on how frequently pings could be sent from a particular source. These limitations no longer exist.
You can test against the new system now. Again, for your production pings, they should be sent to the existing ping service at weblogs.com until Thursday Oct 20 at 10am. If you want to exercise the new system with your publishing tools before then, please do, using the following information:
| Test Servers Until 10/20/05 | |
| test-weblogs.com | |
| test-www.weblogs.com | |
| test-rpc.weblogs.com | |
| test-audio.weblogs.com | |
| test-audiorpc.weblogs.com |
On Thursday, the test servers will become production servers, and the DNS names will be switch from their current IP addresses to the new ones:
| Production Servers on 10/20/05 | IP Address |
| weblogs.com | 209.112.113.105 |
| www.weblogs.com | 209.112.113.105 |
| rpc.weblogs.com | 209.112.113.106 |
| audio.weblogs.com | 209.112.113.107 |
| audiorpc.weblogs.com | 209.112.113.108 |
As always, please use the DNS server names for accessing the weblogs.com ping service if at all possible. We understand that in some cases, IP addresses may need to be used, so we’re providing the information above to allow those parties to accommodate the upcoming change.
The website gets a new look, and now will only show the most recent 100 pings on the home page. At some times of the day currently, the current site’s home page will display more than 6,000 pings from the previous 5 minutes of traffic.
Publishers that are pinging weblogs.com right now should not have to do anything different to accommodate this change, provided they aren’t using hard-coded IP addresses to access the weblogs.com ping server. Everything should just get smoother, faster and more reliable. See the weblogs.com website’s information for more on this if you are interested.
