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Re: Can''t find a server issue...

From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Time: 11:37:59 am

Sorry, I mistyped. That's what I meant. I probably was confused by
the name of your master server, ns1.starionhost.net.
____________________________________________________________________
Chris Buxton Men & Mice
Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy

At 6:42 AM -0500 7/21/04, Jeff Justice wrote:
>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.




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