Service Interuption / Live 365, Find out when we will be back online!

We are experiencing a technical issue with our broadcast. This should be resolved in 24-72 hours.

At issue is a change to the Live365 DNS server. It is hard to imagine that a company would not take the neccessary back-up steps and testing to insure that service will not be interupted for all of the variables.

Highlander Radio continues to remain online and broadcasting, so when this issue is resolved at Live365, you will all be able to tune in as soon as it is resolved.

From what I can tell by reading the Live365 broadcaster support blog, this change is related to some other changes involving new hardware / software that is going to make it an even better service. So once they get their housekeeping done we should be back up and running!

Ok, here is the update.

As you know, Live365 made some changes to their servers. The type of changes they made takes a good number of days for all of the world's internet servers to update. It is sorta like changing your home address and not telling anyone!

No, Live365 has not gone belly up! They are still around and making constant upgrades to their hardware and software. They just did not plan this upgrade very well.

Our Radio Server was unable to access Live365. In fact, we could not even access the Live365 site, so that means none of the update scripts could even talk to Live365. We have made some changes to our Radio Server and Highlander Radio is communicating with Live365 and sending all of the radio information. We should be listed in the next 10 minutes.

As far as when Live365 will be available to everyone? That depends on your individual internet provider when they update their DNS records. There is nothing you can do, you will just have to wait for that to happen.

Ok, for those that want a quick fix and don't mind changing their computer settings proceed are your own risk. This is how we got the Highlander Radio Server back online with Live365 and it works perfectly. In fact, Live365 loads faster than ever now:

The new Live365 DNS is 216.235.80.35. If you want to try and update your computer to recognize the new Live365 server, then you can try the following procedure using the new DNS:

http://www.mediacollege.com/computer/network/dns.html

Again, please do not try this if you are unsure as I don't want to be responsible for messing up your internet connection! Live365 will be available in a few days if you can not access it. Also, this fixed worked for a Windows 2000 machine, I am not sure if it will work for XP or ME or a MAC.

Would appreciate hearing from people that can access Live365 and what ISP you use to connect.

Paul,

at the moment I'm up and running. Both play list and audio through Windows Media Player. As far as ISP connection I don't know it's a T1 line here at work don't know who they buy the bandwith from.

Paul,

I have been up the whole time, but as I am a carpenter, without much Tech knowledge I can't tell you more than I clicked on my usual button and it was there.

Here is the latest update from Live365:

I think it would be safe to say that by Monday everything should be resolved on this issue and we will be at full capacity.

Paul

As far as I know, I too have been up the whole time. I listen afternoons and early evenings (EST) and have had no trouble. My ISP is a small local outfit, WaveNet.

As of 10:30 pm I am still unable to access Live365, but it seems the majority of people are able to access. Please note that there is a planned outage of Live365 from 9:30 p.m. to midnight on Saturday nite. This is for planned upgrades.

Here is the latest from Live365 with a brief explanation of the issue.