I think you misread my original question. He wasn't doing a lookup on "lawrencemuseum.com.net" he was looking for "lawrencemuseum.com". The ".net" was appended and returned in the response by the DNS server or nslookup.
I doubt the client mis typed something as he registered the name himself, created and published the site and several others. He's not a newbie. My client (I'm hosting their site) is using another ISP for access. Step by step: The client types in www.lawrencemuseum.com and gets "page cannot be displayed" I have the client try the IP address and it works. I try the domain name here, it works. I have a few other ISP's try the domain name, it works. I have the client drop to a command prompt and start nslookup nslookup responds with the name and address of the dns server for their cable ISP The client types in "lawrencemuseum.com" Their DNS server responds with "lawrencemuseum.com.net" and the 10. address Original question: Why did the DNS server or nslookup add ".net"? If not possible by a DNS server or nslookup then what could the cause be? Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Salovesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 3:09 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] DNS question > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mike Kuzenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > What do you mean by not nslookup and not anybody's dns? > > Neither the DNS system nor nslookup's view of it would do what you describe, > and -certainly- not just for one domain. > > The problem lies elsewhere. Like with what your client typed, perhaps. > > > Yes, on the 10. IIRC. > > That makes sense, more or less. For an nslookup on lawrencemuseum.com.net, > nslookup would have looked for information about a -host- named > lawrencemuseum in the domain com.net, and com.net has apparently made a > wildcard record for any otherwise unknown host name in its domain to be > mapped to 10.0.0.128. > > (BTW to nobody in particular - don't ever have a public DNS server give out > RFC1918 addresses, per RFC1918 itself.) > > -- > Dave Salovesh > RAM Associates, Inc. > (800 or 202) 543-3635 > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
