Search Again: Re: Can''t find a server issue... From: Jeff Justice Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 Time: 4:43:47 am Yes, but what about the response time of starionline.com :) Jeff J. On Jul 21, 2004, at 2:58 AM, Men & Mice Support wrote: > 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