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Really strange DNS problem

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Lifer
On our internal network, I'm seeing some pretty funny behavior.

If I go to a web page that doesn't exist, I immediately get redirected to our company's homepage. So if I were to type "www.asdfghjk12l.com" it would take me to our company's homepage. If I go into a command prompt and ping an existing website, it gives me the correct IP address and response. If I ping a web site that doesn't exist, it pings our company's home page and returns results from that.

We don't host our own web page. It's hosted by Interland.
 
Check your proxy settings and make sure that you don't have the proxy set to your company's homepage.
 
Look for like "@ IN A x.x.x.x" if you're using bind in your domain's conf. If ie can't get an ip, it'll start looking through those default search domains, and if there's a wildcard in there, you'll get your webserver. I hope this made sense, i'm so damn tired and my monitor is blue ;/
 
Originally posted by: Elemental007
On our internal network, I'm seeing some pretty funny behavior.
If I go to a web page that doesn't exist, I immediately get redirected to our company's homepage. So if I were to type "www.asdfghjk12l.com" it would take me to our company's homepage. If I go into a command prompt and ping an existing website, it gives me the correct IP address and response. If I ping a web site that doesn't exist, it pings our company's home page and returns results from that.
We don't host our own web page. It's hosted by Interland.
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Sounds like your running a dns server configured to return 'default' information for unknown domains, in this case someone has set it up to return the ip of your webserver. These types of servers are common with hosting providers as they can configure them to answer for 'any' domain that gets pointed to them, so if you register a new domain they don't actually need to change dns to park it.

Bill


 
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