mark at akwe-xavante
Nov 16, 2007, 10:58 AM
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Intermittent Server Access
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Hi,
For a number of weeks I have been puzzling over a strange problem.
My Web Server is only available to visitors intermittently!
A remote request is made and the browser returns a message server not found,
several seconds or minutes even hours later everything is OK.
I have experienced this myself sometimes too, and sometimes all I have to do
is refresh the page and everything is OK. Sometimes I have to open a new
window to get what I want but what is interesting is that if I Ping my
domain Name the process does not return an IP Address sometimes. If I try
the ping process several times I eventually get my servers IP address and if
I then use a browser I get my web page too.
I was in a position to sit in front a PC on my local LAN today monitoring
all traffic in & out of my Router whilst a friend tried to request a web
page. No incoming traffic and he didn't get a web page either, I ask him to
ping my domain name and he got nothing (No ip address returned) and I asked
him to ping my ip address and he gets a response.
I ask him to make an addition to his hosts file and everything worked fine,
I ask him to comment it out and he gets nothing, moments later all is well.
This is an intermittent problem, a problem that I would like to resolve but
how?
For weeks I have believed that the problem could of been my aging server, a
dodgy connection or cable or a faulty Router but after I have asked a friend
to test a few things for me at the command prompt and the use of his hosts
file whilst I monitor my routers activity I think the problem is elsewhere.
Are some Domain Name servers dropping my Domain Name entry or is there
something going on! This is so frustrating
My thoughts and ideas welcome.
Regards
Mark
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