angela29 Posted May 7, 2004 Posted May 7, 2004 Yesterday, everything looked fine, worked great. My friend's website was up and running, and when I went to check what personal info was displaying on whois, everything listed [we were actually looking into going private with her domain as a result]. Today, her site isn't coming up at all. I had installed Movable Type, and was working on configuring it. http://www.shescape.net/mt.cgi Nothing, as you can see. But even more disturbing is the fact that a whois query of the domain today lists it as available again. How the heck could THIS have happened? Any ideas? Quote
hindixp Posted May 7, 2004 Posted May 7, 2004 Seems your DNS entries are pointing to TCH nameservers, If this has not been allowed a minimum of 48Hrs you might have to wait a bit before your domain is accessible from everywhere. Currently i see nameservers as Name Server: NS1.TOTALCHOICEHOSTING.COM Name Server: NS2.TOTALCHOICEHOSTING.COM Quote
angela29 Posted May 7, 2004 Author Posted May 7, 2004 The problem is that the domain is accessible from NOwhere. Where it certainly WAS yesterday and the day before and the day before. Also, if you go here: http://www.f2s.com/domainname and punch in shescape.net like you're going to register it, it lists it still available for purchase whereas yesterday, like I said, it was listing all my friend's contact info. I know this probably has nothing at all to do with TCH [despite the fact that we registered the domain and purchased the space here] but it is getting very upsetting to me. Quote
angela29 Posted May 7, 2004 Author Posted May 7, 2004 Thank the Net Gods! It's working now. What the hell kind of glitch was that, anyway? Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted May 7, 2004 Posted May 7, 2004 Nothing, as you can see. But even more disturbing is the fact that a whois query of the domain today lists it as available again. How the heck could THIS have happened? Any ideas? I just did a whois on shescape.net and get good results. Registered through: TotalChoice Hosting Domain Name: SHESCAPE.NET Created on: 03-May-04 Expires on: 03-May-05 Last Updated on: 03-May-04 Quote
Head Guru Posted May 7, 2004 Posted May 7, 2004 New DNS can be very funny. The way dns works is per ISP. Each ISP maintains its own set of DNS servers. The frequency of updates on these dns servers is set by your ISP. More important than frequency of updates is number of dns servers ran by your isp. So here is my take on what you witnessed today. dns server1 at your isp updated 24 hours after you bought the domain name. dns server2 at your isp hasnt updated yet. Yesterday when you looked at the site, your internet connection grabbed dns server1 and the dns lookup was successful. Drink a toast, be happy. Now today you get online, and for whatever reason dns server1 at your isp is busy or down, and your internet connection grabbed dns server2, however that server hadnt cached or updated its global dns record for your site. IE: site down. So you tried again and again, and finally you hit dns server1 and whamo your site is online. This is VERY common with new domain propagation and I have seen it happen over and over again. It is known as new dns flip flop. I have seen new domains flip flop for 7 - 10 days, whilst in most cases they settle down in 24 - 72 hours. Bill Quote
Samrc Posted May 7, 2004 Posted May 7, 2004 Great info! Will make a note for future reference! -Samantha Quote
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