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Gravatar.com’s DNS is Down — Here’s a Fix!

Blogged in Wordpress, Wordpress Dev on Tuesday July 19, 2005

As most of you know, I run the gravatar plugin on my site that lets you display your gravatar on your comments. Well, as a lot of you also know, their domain expired. Their current DNS was not resolving, so I found out the hack to fix this and get the gravatars working again.

For those who care about fixing this, here it is.
Go into your gravatar plugin and do this:

Replace www.gravatar.com with 64.124.231.223

Your gravatars will once again be working after that =)

I still wonder, why would someone even let the domain get close to expiring. I always renew mine at least 3-4 months ahead of time when I want to keep them. Something silly, but here’s a quick hack for it.

11 Responses to “Gravatar.com’s DNS is Down — Here’s a Fix!”

  1. No GravatarXeroCool says:
    July 19th, 2005 at 4:12pm

    Gravatar Problem Fixed

    Recently, I posted about Gravatar.com being down because the domain expired. But one thing I found is a mirror which was http://64.124.231.223. Look at my comments, They work, right? Replace http://gravatar.com with http://64.124.231.223 and your fine…

  2. No GravatarPauly D says:
    July 20th, 2005 at 1:42pm

    Gravatar is now back up.

  3. No GravatarJonathan says:
    July 20th, 2005 at 1:53pm

    Ok, thanks. I’ll change it later when I feel like it =)

  4. No GravatarJonathan says:
    July 22nd, 2005 at 6:34am

    I went back and changed it again so that it points to the domain and not the IP.