Search Again: Re: Can''t find a server issue... From: Men & Mice Support Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 Time: 1:01:10 am At 2:37 PM -0500 7/20/04, Jeff Justice wrote: >It is someone else's domain. I am running Mac OS9, version 3.5.3 QDNS. > >What's odd, is that I hit refresh in Safari several times, got the >"Can't connect to server" message. Then went to DNS Expert, looked >up the domain, got no results from our primary. Tried it several >times. After about the 10th time of hitting "Start", I finally got >a record out of our primary and everything started going through >smoothly in Safari and DNS Expert. That tells me your server is running into something that's confusing it, and it's taking a while to figure it out. >Doesn't a name server go out on the internet to find something if it >doesn't have the requested entry in its own database? If so, where >does it look on the internet? It starts with the root servers, and it follows referrals until it finds the requested information. >This makes me wonder if this is the reason for the few, but >consistent complaints I receive about people not being able to reach >the domains we do host. Possible, but unlikely. Actually, at least at the moment, I found the two servers hosting starionline.net to respond quite quickly. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy >On Jul 20, 2004, at 1:51 PM, Men & Mice Support wrote: > >>Is it your domain or does it belong to someone else? What platform >>are you using? >>____________________________________________________________________ >>Chris Buxton Men & Mice >>Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy >> >>At 11:51 AM -0500 7/20/04, Jeff Justice wrote: >>>I have particular domain name that won't resolve on our primary >>>server. It says there is no record. (using DNS Expert) >>> >>>I check our secondary, which is hosted by another company, and the >>>record appears. I check our bandwidth provider's nameservers, and >>>it comes up. So why is there no record in our primary? >>> >>>Jeff J.

Messages In This Thread: Can''t find a server issue... by Jeff Justice on Jul 20, 2004 at 9:54:12 am Re: Can''t find a server issue... by Men & Mice Support on Jul 20, 2004 at 11:52:38 am Re: Can''t find a server issue... by Jeff Justice on Jul 20, 2004 at 12:59:17 pm Re: Can''t find a server issue... by billc_lists@greenbuilder.com on Jul 20, 2004 at 8:31:27 pm Re: Can''t find a server issue... by Men & Mice Support on Jul 21, 2004 at 1:01:10 am Re: Can''t find a server issue... by Jeff Justice on Jul 21, 2004 at 4:43:47 am Re: Can''t find a server issue... by Men & Mice Support on Jul 21, 2004 at 11:37:59 am