Jack Woehr wrote: > As regards flakey www.oorexx.org DNS: > > An OpenBSD compatriot looked at PlanetDomain's name server records > and says the following: > > I think they setup a CNAME record for *.oorexx.org pointing to > 208.34.240.200 instead of an A record. The planetdomain.com servers > respond to A and ANY queries for www.oorexx.org <http://www.oorexx.org> > with an A record as > expected, but queries for any other hosts (e.g., xyzzy.oorexx.org) > yield the CNAME record as do explicit CNAME queries for > www.oorexx.org <http://www.oorexx.org>. > > Probably what's happening is your cache is ending up with a CNAME > record for www.oorexx.org <http://www.oorexx.org>, so future A queries > end up trying to > instead resolve "208.34.240.200" (because CNAME records take > precedence over anything else), which it then doesn't know how to > resolve. > > _Ask the oorexx.org team to double check that there's no CNAME records > for *.oorexx.org where they meant to configure an A record._ They > probably either meant "*.oorexx.org CNAME www.oorexx.org > <http://www.oorexx.org>" or > "*.oorexx.org A 208.34.240.200", but "*.oorexx.org CNAME > 208.34.240.200" is going to break for any caches that don't internally > handle IP address literals. > > -- > Jack J. Woehr # "Self-delusion is > http://www.well.com/~jax # half the battle!" > http://www.softwoehr.com # - Zippy the Pinhead > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel > Ok, I think I have fixed this. It may take a day or two for your DNS to get the update but mine already has the new record.
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