Websites switching homepages!

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>> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
>> From: "Glorywest" <webdesign7 at comcast.net>
>> Subject: Websites switching homepages!
>> Date: 18 Apr 2005 08:05:42 -0700
>>
>> The site www.spencersmountain.org periodically shows a different home
>> page. The home page that occasionally pops up is the site
>> www.magdrl-nova.org. The two sites switch home pages! When this other
>> home page pops in, it is just html, no graphics, no css. There is no
>> uploading to the site with the wrong page. We have looked through the
>> code, looked through the pages on the site and cannot figure out how a
>> ifferent home page could appear occasionally. I thought someone has to
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> They both seem to have the same IP address...
>
> (I realize that nslookup has some 'issues', but for a really quick and
> dirty...,
> it works.)
>
> cds2% nslookup www.spencersmountain.org
> Server:  localhost
> Address:  127.0.0.1
>
> Non-authoritative answer:
> Name:    www.spencersmountain.org
> Address:  66.160.69.234
>
> cds2% nslookup www.magdrl-nova.org.
> Server:  localhost
> Address:  127.0.0.1
>
> Non-authoritative answer:
> Name:    www.magdrl-nova.org
> Address:  66.160.69.234
>
>
>> be uploading or there has to be code somewhere calling up this html
>> file, but then I can't find the file on the site or a keyword that
>> would be on the mystery page in any of the pages. We do not do any work
>>
>> on this site ourselves. The client does all the maintenance.
>>
>> Ever heard of anything like this? Any ideas what might be happening?
>> The client is using FrontPage to create the pages. The sites were on
>> the same server, a Win2k machine. We just moved the dog site to a
>> different server and it is still happening, plus both sites have
>> switched home pages. This happens intermitently then the right pages
>> are back up with graphics etc. The moment I see it I log in and check
>> the files and there is no sign of the index.cfm file appearing on the
>> site in the files that I see on the web server. We have checked the DNS
>> settings backwards and forwards. I thought moving the dog site to
>> another server here might eliminate the problem. But it didn't. Could
>> we be missing something in the DNS settings? I am not the network admin
>> obviously, but I will pass any info on to them.  Any insight will be
>> much appreciated.
>>
>>
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If they are virutal hosting with apache, the default site could be
displayed if the virtually hosted site is not available.