thief-thecircle.com - TTLG Forums

margotbean on 26/7/2015 at 07:03

Does anyone know why thief-thecircle.com keeps disappearing and then re-appearing?

Is it gone for good this time? ???

nickie on 30/7/2015 at 13:52

Whatever is still there, is accessible via the (http://thief.ttlg.mobi/) Thief logo at the very top of the forum (between TTLG and Bioshock). As far as I know, that access doesn't appear/disappear all the time.

Yandros on 30/7/2015 at 15:45

The site is up, but their DNS has for a long time failed to map the domain name to the actual web server. If you have the IP address you can still access the home page and get to things. I can't remember what it is, but a search here would probably find it. I can't believe no one with the access has ever bothered to look into this and get it fixed.

AntiMatter_16 on 30/7/2015 at 17:24

For serious. Thief-TheCircle has for over a decade been a huge bastion of all things Thief. It's kind of symbolic that way. I hope someone with access gets it working again soon.

nickie on 30/7/2015 at 17:25

Quote Posted by Yandros

I can't believe no one with the access has ever bothered to look into this and get it fixed.

It's not actually down to TTLG (no access) and several attempts have been made to try and get it fixed. We keep trying.

margotbean on 30/7/2015 at 19:37

Argh! It seems all the links on the main page (accessed by the link nickie posted) need to be updated to the mobi address!

Even google search has a hard time finding The Keeper's Chapel walkthrough.

I'm sorry to say, I don't understand the DNS problem referred to here... if the IP address has changed, then it's not "thief-thecircle.com" anymore, so just update the links. Right? :confused:

Yandros on 30/7/2015 at 19:40

That's the domain name. The IP address is the numeric address pointing to the web server where the site actually exists. The problem is that the mapping between the domain name and that numeric address is broken, so entering thief-thecircle.com in your browser goes nowhere because it can't find the webpage files.

Renault on 30/7/2015 at 20:24

In the meantime, it appears if you just substitute "thief.ttlg.mobi" for "thief-thecircle.com" you can get to just about anything on The Circle's web site:

A Novice Keeper's Lexicon: (http://thief.ttlg.mobi//guides/lexicon/)
Keeper's Chapel: (http://thief.ttlg.mobi/guides/keeperchapel/)
A Thief Bestiary: (http://thief.ttlg.mobi/guides/bestiary/)
Thumper's Guide to the Strange & Unusual: (http://thief.ttlg.mobi/guides/unusual/)

And so on...

This is great news, i thought some of this stuff was lost forever.

jaxa on 30/7/2015 at 22:31

Back it up. Back it all up.

Starker on 30/7/2015 at 23:37

I don't know a lot about web stuff, but if it's a recurring DNS issue, the most solid workaround until the DNS problem gets solved would be to map the address locally in the hosts file, no?