- 2024
- Jul
- 26
Fun with Chrome?
I’ve been messing with various ideas for where pygg.xyz should go after it’s hosting plan expired. I finally settled on just having it redirect to the top level of Projects, with any errors going to the 404 page at the very end of this blog. This was done with redirects set in the domain registrar’s control panel.
The 404 page will get it’s own post. Stay tuned
DNS takes a while to propagate through the system, so I waited a while. Flushed the DNS resolver cache. Firefox and other browsers said no problem, here’s your site!
Chrome? Doesn’t work.
Did you know chrome has it’s own resolver cache, and even clearing that seems to have issues? I didn’t either.
You can’t get to that resolver cache unless you know the magic words. Put chrome://net-internals/#dns into the URL bar of Chrome and you’ll get to a simple text page where you can look up a named site and see it’s address, and/or clear the cache. Chromium browsers should follow this convention, but YMMV.
I cleared this cache on one machine, and my site started resolving. Another machine, and no luck. There seems to be differences between Chrome versions. That issue may cause some problems for people who have some very old links to this blog, but most of those should be gone by this point.
The moral of the story? There are more things to clear than you think there are, and even that may not work.
There was also some general crap going on with the redirects on the host. I cleaned those up and standardized them with my other domains, you shouldn’t have any issues getting here from there - but Chrome is still Chrome, and Chrome does what it wants.