Chances are you can’t read this, but maybe you’re lucky. The host running this blog, MYSTcommunity, MYSTlore, the D’ni Linguistic Fellowship as well as various other sites is experiencing DNS issues; even though the sites are running, you won’t normally be able to reach them.

You can temporarily fix this by editing your hosts file. On a Unix-like system (including Linux, Mac OS X, etc.), this file resides in /etc/hosts; on Windows NT-based systems (including 2000, XP and Vista), %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. Open the file in a text editor and add a few lines like so:

216.127.69.124 mystfans.com
216.127.69.124 www.mystfans.com
216.127.69.124 chucker.mystfans.com
216.127.69.124 mystcommunity.com
216.127.69.124 www.mystcommunity.com
216.127.69.124 www.mystlore.com
216.127.69.124 en.mystlore.com
216.127.69.124 linguists.bahro.com

On Mac OS X, you also need to flush the hosts cache using dscacheutil -flushcache on 10.5 Leopard, or lookupd -flushcache on 10.4 Tiger and older (otherwise, the change won’t take place immediately).

Afterwards, launch your browser and the URLs should work as usual.