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Geek Culture / Domain resolution not working...but only for one domain!

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Posted: 9th Apr 2007 07:06
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I for whatever reason can not access my site. Other people can access it. And I can access other sites; crap! I can even access my site on a different computer using the same network connection!!

I have tried flushing the dns, obtaining a new net ip, everything! I can access the site if I use the ip, but not with the domain!

anyone any ideas?

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Suicidal Sledder
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Posted: 9th Apr 2007 07:16
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weird... are u running the site off from your computers hard drive?

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Posted: 9th Apr 2007 07:32
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no, it's an external site(I don't do my own server)

what the crap is that google ad thing? I mean, it doesn't even say anyting, it just..puts a random space...

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Posted: 9th Apr 2007 07:35
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how about you give us the ip and or the website name so we can traceroute it.

the google add being blank would lead me to suggest its being blocked by your adblock browser software perhaps.

are you referring to the site in your web link?


http://www.galekus.com/news.php

you might have to wait a little while for a subdomain to get parsed by the dns machines.

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Posted: 9th Apr 2007 07:48
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so ur saying that the computer your using to try to access your site is in no way connected to the server except that they both belong to you?

Check your antivirus settings or ur windows firewall or something... doesnt make much sense... yeah, whats the url?

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Posted: 9th Apr 2007 07:55
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ok, I get free hosting from galekus.com
jouleos.galekus.com is my website, which I cannot access(the ip's for those are different)
I don't have any firewalls
I have done about anything I can think of..

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Posted: 9th Apr 2007 07:59
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like do u get a 404 error when u try to access it?

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Posted: 9th Apr 2007 11:05
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by not resolving the domain, I mean that it says "hostname could not be found" in ping or firefox, stupid IE just says "site cannot be displayed"

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Posted: 9th Apr 2007 22:08
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Check your c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file to make sure your site isn't pointing somewhere else. That's all I can think of.

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Posted: 9th Apr 2007 22:36
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If you tried to access it before it had propagated properly then its possible your ISP will have looked it up, found it didn't exists and cached it. Now whenever you ask your ISP (or router?) for the domain name to be resolved they're simply serving the cached result of "non existant".

Try fully rebooting your machine + your router/modem.

If that fails you might need to wait up to 48 hours for your ISP to look it up again (depending on the TTL or the domain).

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Posted: 9th Apr 2007 23:16 Edited at: 9th Apr 2007 23:17
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Yeah it works fine from here, like Jeku said it sounds like there is something in your c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file.

You may have edited this if you were hosting a temporary web server on your internal LAN.

http://www.KumKie.com http://bulldog.servegame.com
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Posted: 10th Apr 2007 00:00
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I'm not 100% sure - but surely if it was in the hosts file then it WOULD resolve... but just wouldn't be able to connect. His error says it cant resolve implying its trying to look it up somewhere (usually router or ISP) and that server is unable to find it, either in its own cache or by asking another domain name server higher up the chain.

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Posted: 10th Apr 2007 00:15 Edited at: 10th Apr 2007 00:17
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Typicaly you edit the hosts file to redirect an external name like www.galekus.com to an internal ip address like 192.168.1.1, before the DNS got it.

You might do this while you are editing the site so you can test it internaly.

If you didn't you could only test your site using http://192.168.1.1 because if you typed the host name http://www.galekus.com it would go to the DNS to resolve the name and out to the internet instead of a machine on your LAN.

Maybe it doesn't resolve because he has taken his internal test server down but the host file redirect is still in place.

http://www.KumKie.com http://bulldog.servegame.com
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Posted: 10th Apr 2007 00:58
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I dont recall seeing him say he has an internal test server... In fact, he explicitly said:
Quote: "I don't do my own server"


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Posted: 10th Apr 2007 01:24 Edited at: 10th Apr 2007 01:29
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Maybe he did once and then decided better of it or maybe some piece of software he used to generate his web pages did it for him. Who knows, but he needs to go in that file to rule it out as the source of the problem. If anything looks like below it needs removing...

jouleos.galekus.com 127.0.0.1
jouleos.galekus.com 192.168.x.x
jouleos.galekus.com 10.1.x.x

having worked in IT support you see all sorts of crazy things like..

Confused me, "are you sure your password isn't working because Caps Lock is on?"

Crazy mad user, "yes i'm bloody well sure! I pressed it twice just to make sure it was off!"

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Posted: 10th Apr 2007 11:52
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Quote: "having worked in IT support you see all sorts of crazy things like.. "

Very true - I've been in that business before. Some people shouldn't be allowed to use PC's...

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Posted: 10th Apr 2007 12:09
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Find the ip/hostname of your ISPs DNS servers, and then ask that server what it knows about your domain...

If you've got linux/unix, then this is quite easy.



Where 1.2.3.4 is your ISP's name server, and www.unresponsive-domain.com is the domain which will not resolve.


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Posted: 21st Apr 2007 06:54
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yea...dead topic now really, but I have got this little temporary down time for a long time, like almost a year.

I don't have anything in my hosts file(I use to use it on my old PC to get around that downtime though)

If I override the IP(ignore domain resolution), then it works..

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