Suggestion: "Server not found", DNS issues, box5

[McGruber]

Sometimes when I go to me Web site :] on box5

Firefox stays still and on the bottom-left it says something about "trying to find *.hostpo.net" (where * is me address to me web site).

And then Firefox spits out: "Server not found."

And then I hit F5 and then the Web page shows.

So my suggestion is that the domain name always goes to the server. I don't know how to test this...maybe a script with random number for `sleep` and then `getipaddressfordomain *.hostpo.net` and then when the IP doesn't come out, we've got ourselves a crocodile! Where 'crocodile' means something to figure out even deeper. Something deep within the server code and that only can be found out through textual se\x. It's gotta go reaaaaaall deep.

[Techlover]

Thanks for suggestion

[McGruber]

Whoa whoa whoa whoa.......Did you not read the whole message?

From McGruber in the last post on this thread at the last two sentences:
> Something deep within the server code and
> that only can be found out through textual se\x.
> It's gotta go reaaaaaall deep.

These two statements/sentences needs to be removed-by-editing by a moderator for 100% certainty as they ring to the word 'bogus/creepy/creates-awkwardness.' New testing-rules/moderator-policies are described later in this post.

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Testing new laws here...so watch out for 'McGruber'...

-Casius

rev. 14

[McGruber]

Actually, nevermind the DNS issues. I did this:

$: cat diablo2linux.hostpo.net_test.sh ; echo STOP_SCRIPT
#!/bin/bash

# The purpose of this script is to test the probability of
# receiving the IP address of domain name diablo2linux.hostpo.net
# by creating statistics in the form of:
# '1'=hit
# '0'=miss

OUT=diablo2linux.hostpo.net_testresults.txt

echo -n '' > $OUT
n=1;
while [ 1 ] ; do
echo -n "$n) " >> $OUT
ping -c 1 diablo2linux.hostpo.net > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo 1 >> $OUT || echo 0 >> $OUT
sleep_t=$(echo "$RANDOM / 300" | bc -l)
sleep_t=${sleep_t%.*}
let sleep_t++
echo "sleep $sleep_t" >> $OUT
sleep $sleep_t
let n++
done
STOP_SCRIPT

$: cat diablo2linux.hostpo.net_testresults.txt ; echo STOP_OUTPUT
1) 1
sleep 49
2) 1
sleep 5
3) 1
sleep 81
4) 1
sleep 69
5) 1
sleep 94
6) 1
sleep 101
7) 1
sleep 12
8) 1
sleep 89
9) 1
sleep 84
10) 1
sleep 41
11) 1
sleep 78
12) 1
sleep 41
13) 1
sleep 96
14) 1
sleep 96
15) 1
sleep 98
16) 1
sleep 36
17) 1
sleep 61
18) 1
sleep 90
19) 1
sleep 68
20) 1
sleep 3
21) 1
sleep 109
22) 1
sleep 78
23) 1
sleep 5
24) 1
sleep 96
25) 1
sleep 34
26) 1
sleep 72
27) 1
sleep 74
28) 1
sleep 27
29) 1
sleep 55
30) 1
sleep 94
31) 1
sleep 2
32) 1
sleep 93
33) 1
sleep 47
34) 1
sleep 2
35) 1
sleep 38
36) 1
sleep 27
37) 1
sleep 68
38) 1
sleep 48
39) 1
sleep 80
40) 1
sleep 7
41) 1
sleep 84
42) 1
sleep 14
43) 1
sleep 96
44) 1
sleep 79
45) 1
sleep 104
46) 1
sleep 97
47) 1
sleep 42
48) 1
sleep 98
49) 1
sleep 79
50) 1
sleep 110
51) 1
sleep 32
52) 1
sleep 59
53) 1
sleep 22
54) 1
sleep 4
55) 1
sleep 79
56) 1
sleep 93
57) 1
sleep 28
58) 1
sleep 30
59) 1
sleep 74
60) 1
sleep 10
61) 1
sleep 29
62) 1
sleep 68
63) 1
sleep 86
64) 1
sleep 35
65) 1
sleep 6
66) 1
sleep 41
STOP_OUTPUT

Not to mention I put the sleeper at 1-3sec and after ~300 tries the subdomain diablo2linux.hostpo.net worked out.

But of course, the subdomain probably didn't do much, I probably could've just pinged hostpo.net. This suggests that my system with Firefox was the main DNSer issue...could be my DHCP client or router/DSL-modem/ISP something or another. All seems clear for the domain going to the server.

[demlasjr]

Well, also not sure if your system with firefox is the fault. Did you tried any other DNS, such as OpenDNS ? That can be the issue.
BTW, your comments (or monologue) are kinda creepy, you know ?

And P.S. Did you tried to hide your domain in the first post, but you fail making it public on the third one. Hahaha (diablo2linux.hostpo.net)

Regards.

[Satdav]

can you please try to open the site on safe mode Safe Mode, do you get this error on internet explorer also

[demlasjr]

We don't understand you Satdav