[ncolug] Re: Can't make URL work

  • From: MrKnisely <mrknisely@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:01:55 -0500

Henry Keultjes wrote:

http://www.firelands.bgsu.edu/offices/bando/scheduling.html

I don't seem to be able to make this link work.

Can anyone suggest an alternative or tell me what is wrong with that link?

Henry

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Here's my findings, www.firelands.bgsu.edu does not have an A record.

www.firelands.bgsu.edu. 86400   IN      CNAME   fireweb.firelands.bgsu.edu.
fireweb.firelands.bgsu.edu. 86400 IN    A       129.1.180.21

For some reason, I'm not able to get DNS to figure this out automatically. If I query their name servers directly I get resolution.

If I toss in 129.1.180.21 into my browser I get a page but not a pretty one... Now, I toss /offices/bando/scheduling.html on the end and I get a 404. Interesting. Ok, so I put an entry in /etc/hosts for this and now I get a very nice looking website.

Looks to me like they are having some DNS issues. They probably don't see it because DNS is working within their network without issue.

Hope this helps!

Mike K.


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