trouble with W2K DNS!!!

[tkim]

i have this dns server and i have made some entries. when i try to access the website i have made from a computer outside of the network, the site wont come up??? it used to work but now it doesn't. i have rebooted and still no luck.


weird thing: it works sometimes!! if i clear the cache on a machine and visit the site, it wont come up....when i try it a second time, BOOM...it pulls up....what to do!!??

 

[Davegod75]

make sure you have the gateway and DNS settings right on your box

 

[Shadow07]

So is this DNS server on the public side or on a private side of your network? Also, you stated that you cleared the cache on a machine, what OS/machine is it? Also, what is the IP address of your DNS server and what are the TCP/IP settings of your client that is trying to connect to this site.

 

[serialb]

It might help us to understand the situation better if you specify what kind of connection and/or router you are using.

Davegod75 got the main point, and you must have missed something or mistyped under the TCP/IP settings.

 

[tkim]

sorry....well, i have 5 ip's from pacbell. i=one fo them is the dns and one is a web server. i have made entries in the dns server to reflect the web sites ip, domain name, and alias. after i configured everything, it worked fine. i can access the page from anywhere and it comes up fast. i wanted to maek a new alias so i went into the dns server and deleted the current alias. then proceeded to add the new one. after i did, i went to another computer and tried to access the page but it would not come up. i was sure i did everyhting right. i changed nothing else but the alias....once second working, one second not.


i am confused!!

oh yeah, i am sure the settings are ok because i didn't touch them. plus, they were fine before i made the alias change.

 

[Shadow07]

I am partially confused. How many alias's did you have? Can you give us the DNS names?

Thanks.

 

[tkim]

btw thanks shadow...save my ass again!

ok, the original alias was www.sfagento.com ----> which was working fine...no lag or nothing

then i deleted it and created chw.sfagento.com ----> would not work. "this page cannot be..."
so i recreated the originals so now both alias's exist.

this was all on friday.

i cam back on saturday and "boom" it's working!! hooray!! (not for long)

i come back today and i get some voicemails saying that it is down. well, i go and type in the address and it wont show. i refresh 1 more time and "boom" it pulls up. i assumes that the lines were slow so i thought "it's working but it's slow so it will get better"

now, it won't show at all!!! no matter what i do.

wait, just turned around and pressed F5 and it worked....it is so selective!!


is this my ignorance or is there something screwiy with this thing??? \

THANKS ALL!!!!

 

[Shadow07]

I would not've created an alias record. I would've created an A record to point to www.sfagento.com, then created an alias for chw.sfagento.com that points to the A record. It almost sounds like you have a DNS server issue. Are you replicating that DNS Zone to any other DNS servers? BTW, is this DNS server your's or your ISP's?

 

[tkim]

this one is ours....our dns that we specify in our machine points to paccbells. let me try what you said. i will let you know.

 

[Shadow07]

YGPM

 

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