[pchelpers] Re: Website down

Interesting analysis...

Scott McNay wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Thursday, March 23, 2006, 9:14:02 PM, you wrote:
>
> JD> It appears that http://modecideas.com
> JD> has been unavailable here for the past 4 hours. It may be a server
> JD> problem. I tried emailing the service, but so far no reply.
>
> Looks like a DNS problem, not a server problem.  It's kinda hard to
> view pages on a web server when the DNS server isn't answering.  If
> you know the IP address, you might be able to hit it that way.
>
>    C:\> nslookup modecideas.com
>    Server:  dns-cac-lb-01.texas.rr.com
>    Address:  24.93.41.125
>
>    DNS request timed out.
>        timeout was 2 seconds.
>    DNS request timed out.
>        timeout was 2 seconds.
>    *** Request to dns-cac-lb-01.texas.rr.com timed-out
>   
You are probably right about this. I just spent half an hour on ehost 
trying to find a way to edit the dns information without result (that is 
where the domain is registered). So far it is slow going.

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