Something Funny with DNS

[Maverick]

There was something strange going on tonight with DNS. I tried to visit earlier and couldn't resolve www.pilotsofamerica.com. I looked up the url using the whois on Networksolutions.com, got the DNS servers that pilotsofamerica.com uses, used nslookup and could not resolve www.pilotsofamerica.com with the comcast DNS servers, then I switched to the WSC1.Jomax.net DNS server and could resolve www.pilotsofamerica.com.

About half an hour later normal function seemed to have been restored. I don't know if there was something with the TTL and the Jomax DNS servers weren't propagating or what. I didn't have problems with any other site, just pilotsofamerica.

Jeannie

 

[Brian Austin]

I've been seeing this a lot lately from Cox High-speed in Phoenix. Doesn't matter what the hostname is, either. No such hostname for www.yahoo.com, my office mailserver, PoA, a camera site I've been frequenting, a woodworking site, etc.. The reply is too fast for a true timeout, which makes it even weirder. Reset my DNS to my office system and the problem goes away.

Haven't been interested enough to try to trace it.

 

[wsuffa]

Same problem on my end, much different DNS servers, though....

 

[Greebo]

One way to work around this is to manually edit your hosts file to fix the IP of pilotsofamerica.com locally so you bypass DNS.

It will be in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc - the file is just called hosts - open it up in notepad and add the following at the end:
216.69.169.202 pilotsofamerica.com

That will tell your computer to bypass dns and go directly here.

 

[Maverick]

One way to work around this is to manually edit your hosts file to fix the IP of pilotsofamerica.com locally so you bypass DNS.

It will be in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc - the file is just called hosts - open it up in notepad and add the following at the end:
216.69.169.202 pilotsofamerica.com

That will tell your computer to bypass dns and go directly here.

I'm well aware of how that's done but, when the problem existed I couldn't get to the board even by going to the IP address. When I tried it would redirect from the IP to http://www.pilotsofamerica.com and I would get the same message that the host could not be resolved. It's one of the strangest things I've seen and I've gotta tell you that's saying something. I manage a corporate network and I've seen some pretty goofy things.

That behavior lasted for about half an hour then suddenly everything was ok. I don't know how long the problem may have existed before I tried to logon.

Jeannie

 

[Greebo]

Odd indeed - but as far as I know the problem wasn't on our end.

 

[Maverick]

Odd indeed - but as far as I know the problem wasn't on our end.

I don't think it was on your end either unless it had something to do with the Jomax DNS servers. It appeared to be a definite DNS strangeness issue.

Weird !!

Jeannie