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Re: DNS - site not visible everywhere

From: David Ross
Date: Wednesday, September 6, 2000
Time: 10:41:20 pm

Most of the large and / or broad band ISP. Bellsouth, AOL, etc... use
caching servers to intercept all port 80 traffic and try and serve it
locally. To do this they also have to play games with the DNS requests.
I'm on Bellsouth and when they have problems, yes, surfing gets plain weird.

> > I'm having trouble with readers around the country who say that they
> > get DNS errors when trying to access our site.
> >
> > This problem started abruptly, last Wednesday. (No recent changes
> > had been made to any seetings or software on the server.) I have
> > already submitted my QDNS settings to M&M tech support, and they've
> > confirmed that I seem to have everything setup right..
> >
> > I'd greatly appreciate it if a few people from this List would try
> > our URL, and letting me know (off list?) if they access it OK or find
> > problems. http://www.cyberdarts.com
>
> I'm beginning to wonder if there is a problem at network solutions.
> I've noticed that when I go to a url, I get nothing, like there is no dns.
>
> then, if I stop netscape and go to the site again <boom> no problems. This
> is what happened with cyberdarts.
>
> At first I put it up to the fact that college is in, and I live next to a
> university, and @home sucks rocks.
>
> But now this has been happening all over the place, with many sites, on many
> machines, on different connections.
>
> I could be on crack of course, or experiencing regional weirdness (Seattle)
> but is anybody else seeing this sort of thing?



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