Tricky DNS issue....

[Danny Mayer]

It works for me at those sites that you said failed.

		Danny

At 06:13 PM 11/2/00 -0600, Brett Busch wrote:
>
>I am having a really *wierd* problem with a domain I have and any help would
>be greatly appreciated.
>
>I am hosting a domain that can be seen by some nameservers and not seen by
>others. I have contacted Network Solutions, but they can only tell me that
>it is not their problem.
>
>The domain is esubcontractor.com
>The nameservers for esubcontractor.com are ns1.websourcemedia.com and
>calypso.thisbox.com
>
>I am sure that my DNS servers are set up correctly. Here is some nslookup
>output from them:
>
>The host that I am looking up is portal.esubcontractor.com
>
>C:\>nslookup
>Default Server:  calypso.thisbox.com
>Address:  209.163.136.253
>
>> portal.esubcontractor.com
>Server:  calypso.thisbox.com
>Address:  209.163.136.253
>
>Name:    portal.esubcontractor.com
>Address:  209.247.122.200
>
>> server 209.247.122.205
>Default Server:  ns1.websourcemedia.com
>Address:  209.247.122.205
>
>> portal.esubcontractor.com
>Server:  ns1.websourcemedia.com
>Address:  209.247.122.205
>
>Name:    portal.esubcontractor.com
>Address:  209.247.122.200
>
>>
>
>Everything looks fine from this end, but I have customers that cannot see my
>site, and their nameservers cannot see this host. Some examples:
>
>> server ns.kivex.com
>Default Server:  ns.kivex.com
>Address:  204.177.32.2
>
>> portal.esubcontractor.com
>Server:  ns.kivex.com
>Address:  204.177.32.2
>
>*** ns.kivex.com can't find portal.esubcontractor.com: Server failed
>>
>
>> server 204.62.131.44
>Default Server:  ts1.hotwired.com
>Address:  204.62.131.44
>
>> portal.esubcontractor.com
>Server:  ts1.hotwired.com
>Address:  204.62.131.44
>
>*** ts1.hotwired.com can't find portal.esubcontractor.com: Server failed
>>
>
>
>And some success stories...
>
>> server 209.113.65.2
>Default Server:  sod.insync.net
>Address:  209.113.65.2
>
>> portal.esubcontractor.com
>Server:  sod.insync.net
>Address:  209.113.65.2
>
>Name:    portal.esubcontractor.com
>Address:  209.247.122.200
>
>> server 206.109.1.1
>Default Server:  ns.neo.net
>Address:  206.109.1.1
>
>> portal.esubcontractor.com
>Server:  ns.neo.net
>Address:  206.109.1.1
>
>Name:    portal.esubcontractor.com
>Address:  209.247.122.200
>
>> server 207.235.34.2
>Default Server:  gator.lconn.com
>Address:  207.235.34.2
>
>> portal.esubcontractor.com
>Server:  gator.lconn.com
>Address:  207.235.34.2
>
>Name:    portal.esubcontractor.com
>Address:  209.247.122.200
>
>I thought this may have something to do with the root name servers but I
>cannot find anyone who is willing to help. The beauty of dns is that
>everyone minds their own boat but the downside is that NSI has used that to
>clear themselves of responsibility.
>
>This is becoming a real problem, any help would be appreciated. I would be
>really happy to find out that this is my fault, so I could fix it and put it
>behind me.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Brett Busch
>bbusch at websourcemedia.com
>