This is all fine but why this site only? I presume he is accessing other sites as are others in his company and his other website that we host had no such problem.
He also tried accessing from home (presumably also the same cable ISP. He does not run a dns server locally on his network. He has cable modem access through Adelphia. They run the dns server as most ISP's do. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 4:29 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] DNS question > > I had him run nslookup from his XP machine and it returned > "lawrencemuseum.com.net" instead > > of "lawrencemuseum.com" But he can reach other sites. > > That could happen if he has his server named "net". > > For example, if you have a server named "example.com", an nslookup may > append that to domains you look up. The idea behind this is that if you > work at example.com, you can just type "nslookup host" and get the > information on host.example.com. But it often backfires. > > You can get around this by adding a "." at the end of the domain. If your > client enters "lawrencemuseum.com." (with the period), it should work properly. > > -Scott > --- > Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for > IMail. http://www.declude.com > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > > > 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/
