DNS Problems

LandyMan

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Hi all,

Anyone experiencing some DNS issues today?
I can do a nslookup for a specific address, and the Nameserver returns it properly, but when trying to go to the actual website, it says the URL cannot be found ... hhmm

Oh, and btw, it seems to only happen with https sites, thinking of it now
 
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alchamy

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LandyMan said:
Hi all,

Anyone experiencing some DNS issues today?
I can do a nslookup for a specific address, and the Nameserver returns it properly, but when trying to go to the actual website, it says the URL cannot be found ... hhmm

Oh, and btw, it seems to only happen with https sites, thinking of it now
Could be their proxy again, in my experience they are incapable of running something as simple as squid.
 

DaveBuchanan1337

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I fixed this issue by running my own DNS cache server - I never get any problems now. I'm running dnsmasq on fedora 3.
 

LandyMan

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DaveBuchanan1337 said:
I fixed this issue by running my own DNS cache server - I never get any problems now. I'm running dnsmasq on fedora 3.

Anything like that for Windows out there?
 

DaveBuchanan1337

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I'm not sure - google for it. I know that there is very little development of DNS cache applications for Windows as linux and unix are more stable.

the best way to go would be to run a little linux box on your home network made out of old hardware.
 

alchamy

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I run TinyDNS on a a linux box and as such do not have any resolution issues. So it might be the best path to take.
 

jmn

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Going back to the beginning, it seems like the DNS is fine, if you run a caching DNS server it is still going to resolve names even if the server is temporarily down.
 

LandyMan

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jmn said:
Going back to the beginning, it seems like the DNS is fine, if you run a caching DNS server it is still going to resolve names even if the server is temporarily down.

Well, this is what I get ...
nslookup:
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.snopes.com
Address: 66.165.133.65

So it does resolve, but when I try to go to www.snopes.com in Firefox, I get this:

 

jmn

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... and the server seems to be up, I get in with Firefox, so it's not a dns issue, the server was probably down...
 
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