On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, John Holden wrote: > Hello, > > I've been working on this rather unusual, but extremely frustrating problem > for a couple weeks now. > > What happens is that people go to visit a site in Internet Explorer, and > they navigate around the site a bit and then get a "Server not found or DNS > error". When this error appears, it is usually resolved by hitting the > "Refresh" button in the web browser (sometimes it's necessary to visit > another site, then type go back to the problem site). I've tried visiting > the troublesome sites in Mozilla, which seems to exhibit the same behavior, > but rather than displaying an error, it just stays on the current page; when > this happens, simply clicking the link again usually resolves the problem. > > I've tried accessing the problematic websites from numerous different > computers and ISPs, all with the same type of errors. You can imagine my > clients concern when it appears that their site is not available to > visitors. You can see the problem at two sites: firstchair.com and > vtspiceoflife.com--simply by clicking on different links around the site. > The problem does not appear to be linked to a particular network, as > firstchair.com is connected to a completely different T1 line (and ISP, for > that matter) than vtspiceoflife.com. Sometimes it doesn't happen for 50 > clicks or more, other times the site will not even show on the first > request. Nothing shows in any of the system or Apache error logs.
Sounds like a DNS issue. Perhaps one or more of the DNS server that are listed as authoritative for your domain are either not authoritative, or returning old data. I would manually qury all your DNS server (listed in whois) for your hostnames in question. -- Joe Laffey | Want to convert subnet masks between different LAFFEY Computer Imaging | notations, or figure the number of IPs in a block? St. Louis, MO | Whatmask - It's FREE (GPL) - NEW Version 1.2! USA | http://www.laffeycomputer.com/wm.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mail here will be rejected -----> "Sigfried Trap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
