GEEK ALERT Skip if you want

I moved the web servers from Richard's house to my apartment, since I got a new DSL line, which has better uprate then his cable. Good thing.

DNS is basically the phone book for the internet. It takes the domain name livejournal.com and translates it to an IP address (66.150.15.150)

Each domain name is required to be listed in 2 of these DNS servers. When I changed the IP address of the SF Moviebears, one of the DNS servers I use at http://www.zoneedit.com did not update. The other did. The problem with that is that some ISP's look to one of the server for the correct informaion, some look to the other. This means that some people can get to the website and some cannot. I emailed zoneedit about the problem. It should be corrected soon.

So if you ever wondered how DNS worked..

Your computer needs to access google.com
Your computer asks your ISP where google.com is.
Your ISP checks for the address in it's DNS tables (Or phone book so to speak)
If the information is not there, it goes to one of several root servers for the information.
You then get your web site.

Okay, geek mode off. If I missed a step, someone tell me.