Re: DNS Problem? Sites without www sometimes don't work

I've encounted this as well.. My problem was that the guy before me didn't
prepare an SOA record for the domain.  Instead, he simply created a single A
record with the www. included.  The way to fix this is to have your DNS
server configured properly.. NT is foreign to me, but I might recommend
reading the Linux DNS howto, which includes some background info on DNS in
general.. (see http://www.linuxdocs.org).

Once we configured our domain with SOA records for the domain in the forward
and reverse zones this problem went away.

- Chris Walker

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen Wilson" <karen5341(at)excite.com>
To: <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 4:03 PM
Subject: DNS Problem? Sites without www sometimes don't work


> Hi,
>
> Using NT Server 4.0 and IIS 4, I have several sites sharing one IP. If a
> visitor tries to get to the site by using "http://www.somedomain.com",
they
> connect just fine. But if they try to get to the site by using
> "somedomain.com" without the www, they might connect to the site... and
then
> again they might not. I have seen http://somedomain.com connect in the
> morning, not get found in the afternoon, and then connect okay in the
> evening. Or, not connect on Monday, but connect fine all day Tuesday.
>
> Is this a DNS problem, an IIS problem, or????
>
> Thank you!!
>
> Karen
>
> P.S. A BIG thank you to those who have helped me with my other
questions!!!
> :-)
>
>
>
>
>
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