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Re: DNS - site not visible everywhere

From: David Ross
Date: Friday, September 8, 2000
Time: 12:19:19 am

> > >The only common thread that I find, in the few people who found this
> > >problem, is that the error seems to be coming from a particular
> > >IP#.. 144.232.213.222
> > >
> > >That number does not appear to be one used by our ISP, and certainly
> > >is not one of ours.
> >
> > Rick, are you saying this is the machine that is having trouble
> > accessing your site? If so, can you find out what resolver this host
> > is using for DNS lookups?
>
> Interesting. 144.232.213.222 resolves to sl-infobroker-1-0.sprintlink.net, and
> it's reverse zone is delegated to SprintLink name servers. It's unclear (to me
> anyway) from the name exactly what this host's function is, but it looks like
> maybe a machine that folks might need to go through to get to
> www.cyberdarts.com from SprintLink?

I'll bet it's a caching web server run by sprintlink. Welcome to the
world of large phone company ISPs who are using AOL as an example of how
to provide internet services.



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