Intermittant site not found

[Handruin]

Awesome! Thank you both for the new information (and to everyone else who's been trying to help me resolve this). I will pass this additional information along and hopefully get some answers tonight.

 

[Handruin]

I've just submitted the info, I'll let you know when I hear something.

 

[CityK]

Finally caught one:

nslookup [url]www.storageforum.net[/url]

DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Can't find server name for address 24.153.22.195: Timed out
Server:  dns.nk.rnc.net.cable.rogers.com
Address:  24.153.23.66

*** Can't find server name for address 24.153.22.195: Timed out
Server:  dns.nk.rnc.net.cable.rogers.com
Address:  24.153.23.66
Aliases:  [url]www.storageforum.net[/url]

Ping 64.247.56.118

Pinging 64.247.56.118 with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Reply from 64.247.56.118: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=56
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 64.247.56.118:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 1, Lost = 3 (75% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 100ms, Maximum =  100ms, Average =  25ms

tracert [url]www.storageforum.net[/url]

Tracing route to storageforum.net [64.247.56.118]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  2    30 ms    50 ms    40 ms  10.1.68.129
  3     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  4     *       20 ms    20 ms  gw02.bloor.phub.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.82.
102]
  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  6     *        *       20 ms  0304.gi1-1.msfc1.tor.nac.net [66.246.122.25]  
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  9   110 ms   100 ms   100 ms  64.247.56.118

Trace complete.

 

[CityK]

PS - is there some sort of special way of copying the text in cmd window?

 

[Howell]

Turn on quick edit mode in the cmd window properties? Copy with cursor.

 

[CityK]

Thanks Howell. I was doing it wrong. I was just highlighting the text, ctrl-c'ing and then pasting. But that wouldn't copy everything.

Correct way - highlight text, r-click cmd window title bar, select edit > copy, paste where desired....or, even simplier, just highlight and hit enter then paste where desired.

 

[Howell]

Even better,

highlite the text|r-click in the cmd window to copy
then paste into another cmd window with another r-click or ctrl-v paste.

 

[CityK]

Hey, I like that one.

 

[mubs]

Happened to me for the first time (in a very long time). SF could not be found. From 15:40 to 18:30 PDST, 2004-10-18.

 

[Handruin]

Has anyone else been seeing this lately? They did implement a change to the dns enties on Oct 23rd.

I checked the franticdownstream.com DNS zone file and it didn't have any references to the ns1 & ns2 IPs, so that I added those now.

I haven't heard anyone mention this in a while, so I'm hoping they fixed it.

 

[Will Rickards]

Been fine for me!

 

[blakerwry]

I've had sf manually assigned in my hosts file... Im trying with that entry remarked, I'll let you know if it works... seems to be fine so far

 

[Tea]

Haven't had any problems at this end. I wonder if my Smoothwalls cache the DNS entries or something?

 

[CityK]

The episodes slowly got less frequent. Haven't had one in a while, so I'm guessing it got worked out...as I didn't bother changing anything DNS related.

 

[miksmi]

I'm late to the party but to follow up, I haven't had any recent trouble.

 

[blakerwry]

yup, everything appears fine now

 

[Handruin]

Thanks for the feedback. I'm guessing the change they made, fixed the problem. Sorry it took such a long time to resolve, but I do appreciate the help, so thank you everyone.

Doug

 

[i]

I haven't been able to post a new topic to SF in about 2 days.

Every time I try, I'll click Preview or Submit, and then sit there for ages until my browser returns a "Document contains no data" error.

Adding comments to pre-existing discussions (like this one) is no problem.

 

[blakerwry]

C:\Documents and Settings\blake>nslookup storageforum.net
Server: smoothwall
Address: 192.168.0.1

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to smoothwall timed-out

C:\Documents and Settings\blake>nslookup storageforum.net 208.38.65.37
Server: sts.sherbtel.net
Address: 208.38.65.37

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to sts.sherbtel.net timed-out

C:\Documents and Settings\blake>nslookup storageforum.net ns1.sprintlink.net
Server: ns1.sprintlink.net
Address: 204.117.214.10

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: storageforum.net
Address: 64.247.56.118


C:\Documents and Settings\blake>nslookup storageforum.net dns1.rr.com
Server: dns1.rr.com
Address: 24.30.200.3

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: storageforum.net
Address: 64.247.56.118


C:\Documents and Settings\blake>

 

[blakerwry]

appears there may have been some DNS trouble... i changed my DNS servers to work around the issue. By default my smoothwall was checking kc.rr.com's name servers.

-Blake