Admins, Please respond

Published on July 7, 2005 By Dr Guy In Blogging

Just got off the phone with manopeace and he is Dead in the water. Seems everytime he tries to get to joe User (or Stardock, Political Machine, etc.), he gets a page starting to load, and then a Page cannot be Displayed.

As I have not had any abnormal problems, and it appears that not many else are, does Stardock belong to a blacklisting site that may have blacklisted his site due to high spam content? (Beleive it or not, the State of VA was on one of those lists at one time! Long story).

Please, Larry, Brad or Karma, can you check and get back with me so I can let him know what is going on?

Thanks.

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Comments

Zoomba

on Jul 07, 2005

I'm having the exact same problem when trying to access the site from work. I did some more digging and found that...
1. I can reach JoeUser or any Stardock site if I enter the IP address directly (but I can't click on any links)
2. When running nslookup, it times out looking up any Stardock domain, but works fine with other domains
3. The site is not on the filter list for my company.

Dr Guy

on Jul 07, 2005

If you can do IP, sounds like part of the DNS is down. Given that most of us can get to it, hard to say where the failure is.

Thanks for the insight tho.

Zoomba

on Jul 08, 2005

Yeah, it does sound like a DNS failure... but it's hard to figure out where it went wrong, since it's JUST stardock sites for me.

Dr Guy

on Jul 08, 2005

Yeah, it does sound like a DNS failure... but it's hard to figure out where it went wrong, since it's JUST stardock sites for me.

In Mano's case, the IP did not work. But based upon LW's response, it might have something to do with a wall of shame type of list that JU may be subscribing to.

Dr Guy

on Jul 08, 2005

I just talked to PB, and he's having the same problem, has been for several days now.

I'll pass that along. I doubt they have the same ISP.

Nakor

on Jul 08, 2005

I have spread the DNS server love around to more machines. It's possible our primary DNS servers in California are timing out somehow.

If you get to a point where things are 404'ing (rather than site-specific error messages), please try Start / Run / cmd.exe and try to ping the server in question to see if your DNS resolves it. e.g.

[c:\]ping www.joeuser.com

Pinging www.joeuser.com [66.28.242.220] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 66.28.242.220: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
Reply from 66.28.242.220: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128

Dr Guy

on Jul 09, 2005

Reply By: Nakor

Many many thanks! It seems to have done the trick!

Manopeace

on Jul 09, 2005

Many many thanks! It seems to have done the trick!

YES... it did!

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on Jul 09, 2005

Hey Nakor, do you happen to play chess on chessworld.net?

Nakor

on Jul 09, 2005

Afraid not, Lucas.

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on Jul 09, 2005

ok, just wondering...i happend to know a person with the same nickname on there...if you're interested there is a link to a topic about me trying to start a JU Chess Tournament...

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