Search Again: Re: Wildcard and CNAME mixups? From: Noah Price Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 Time: 8:48:50 am On 4/18/00 12:06 AM, Men & Mice Support <cbuxton@menandmice.com> wrote: > How have you determined that www.theprices.net occasionally shifts to > .41? Is it that you see hits in the log on .41? I found the problem when entering the URL http://www.theprices.net/ went to the .41 server (which I could tell by the web page that comes up -- only a few of the web pages are loaded on .41 at this point, so I can tell by the broken links past the main page), while the URL http://theprices.net/ brought up .209 at the same time. Normally both URLs bring up .209. This is all just using a web browser on a Mac client machine which uses three of the authoritative DNS servers as its name server in the TCP/IP control panel. > Is it possible that someone has bookmarked a page on in the www2 domain? I was typing these in directly, so there wasn't a bookmark involved. I've only noticed it on one machine (but it's the one I use most often). I'll have to check the logs on .41 to see if it appears to happen to anyone else. > I queried all 5 servers authoritative for the domain. I queried for A > records named www.theprices.net. They all gave back the same answer: > www.theprices.net. CNAME theprices.net. > theprices.net. A 209.237.0.209 Thanks, Noah On 4/18/00 12:06 AM, Men & Mice Support <cbuxton@menandmice.com> wrote: > At 11:11 PM -0700 4/17/00, Noah Price wrote: >> This is a portion of the DNS from my domain. Periodically, >> "www.theprices.net" (which should be sent to 209.237.0.209) seems to get >> sent to the "*.theprices.net" A record, 209.133.76.41. If I just use >> "theprices.net" it goes properly to 209.237.0.209. >> >> theprices.net. 7200 A 209.237.0.209 >> *.theprices.net. 7200 A 209.133.76.41 >> files.theprices.net. 7200 A 209.237.0.209 >> www2.theprices.net. 7200 A 209.133.76.41 >> www.theprices.net. 7200 CNAME theprices.net. >> >> Is there something about the order or use of "*" or CNAME records that's >> causing this? I remember a bug regarding use of * in a CNAME record, but >> didn't think it applied to A records. My primary DNS is QDNS, but my ISP's >> secondary is some version of BIND (and gives the records in a somewhat >> different order). >> >> I know it looks a bit odd -- I'm getting ready to shift from one machine to >> another as my web server, but it all looks like it should work... -- \ Noah Price \ Work: noah@apple.com \ Play: noah@theprices.net \ \ \ Apple Computer, Inc. \ http://www.theprices.net/ \

Messages In This Thread: Wildcard and CNAME mixups? by Noah Price on Apr 17, 2000 at 11:15:07 pm Re: Wildcard and CNAME mixups? by Men & Mice Support on Apr 18, 2000 at 12:11:27 am Re: Wildcard and CNAME mixups? by Noah Price on Apr 19, 2000 at 8:48:50 am