Need a favor, who can see my blog?

Post #313,517 by drook 9/4/09 10:05:18 AM Reply	Need a favor, who can see my blog? I just got a third report this morning that someone can't see my blog. All three people have said they can see the main site -- http://cooklikeyourgrandmother.com -- but not the subdomain with the blog -- http://blog.cooklikeyourgrandmother.com The subdomain is hosted on Blogger via a cname entry. I can't figure out where to look, so I'm hoping someone out there can't reach the blog. I need someone who's seeing the problem to ping it and tell me where it's trying to get to. -- Drew
Post #313,518 by boxley 9/4/09 10:24:15 AM Reply	no problem from the corp IP addy will try at home later
Post #313,519 by Andrew Grygus 9/4/09 10:24:25 AM Reply	Both load immediately from here. Firefox 2.0.0.12 on OS/2 from Los Angeles County.
Post #313,520 by crazy 9/4/09 10:39:04 AM Reply	Fine Firefox over comcast in NJ
Post #313,521 by drook 9/4/09 10:43:00 AM Reply	Ye-gads this is frustrating This is the worst part of intermittent problems, sitting here wishing it would break and it won't. -- Drew
Post #313,522 by mvitale 9/4/09 10:43:15 AM Reply	Re: Need a favor, who can see my blog? No problems in IL using WideOpenWest. -Mike "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
Post #313,523 by Another Scott 9/4/09 10:44:02 AM Reply	Both work here (DC). Would a tracert help track this down? Apparently a "Layer 4 Tracert" is the most modern tool - http://pwhois.org/lft/index.who (I don't see a Winders binary, though). (via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traceroute ) Dunno if this IPTrace thingy would help either: http://www.ip-adress...urgrandmother.com (shows up as Kansas) http://www.ip-adress...urgrandmother.com (shows up as SF). HTH a little. Good luck. Cheers, Scott.
Post #313,524 by Silverlock 9/4/09 10:51:05 AM Reply	Fine for me
Post #313,526 by SpiceWare 9/4/09 11:04:13 AM Reply	OK here is it possible they can't see it because they're at work? ie: blogger.com is filtered as a non-work-related site?
Post #313,528 by drook 9/4/09 11:50:27 AM Reply	No At least one of them was able to comment on the blog. They went to a Google cache of one of the posts, clicked the "Comment" link, and up popped the comment page which is at blogger.com. That means, as far as I can tell, it's something in the DNS that's not working. And I can't trace it from here, because for me it is working. -- Drew
Post #313,529 by Andrew Grygus 9/4/09 12:08:27 PM Reply	I had a DNS problem a few weeks ago. The aaxnet.com site disappeared. I called OC Hosting and the support guy didn't even recognize the ocservers.com DNS servers I'd been using ever since the transfer from Velocity. He had me change them to carrierzone.com DNS servers at Network Solutions. I could access the aaxnet.com site from my LinkLine DSL service in less than 20 minutes, but it was 3 days before I could send emails from my clovegarden.com account (hosted with HostUltra) to my aaxnet.com account. Clearly, when DNS goes screwy, it can take quite some time for the kinks to work out.
Post #313,530 by drook 9/4/09 12:11:26 PM Reply	It's the scope of it that's confusing the hell out of me One report from Texas, one from Slovenia, and one from right here in Cleveland. Obviously there could be lots of other people who aren't seeing the site who aren't telling me about it. -- Drew
Post #313,531 by Another Scott 9/4/09 12:45:52 PM 9/4/09 12:58:56 PM Reply	Does this help? (More) It sounds identical to your problems, but this time with Amazon's S3: http://developer.ama...=34076&tstart=150 [edit:] Yet more gotchas that may or may not apply: http://www.dns.net/d...tml#cname-targets Dunno if any of this is helpful. I found these links by searching on "dns cname not propagating" (without the quotes). Good luck! Cheers, Scott. Edited by Another Scott Sept. 4, 2009, 12:58:56 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #313,527 by hnick 9/4/09 11:04:31 AM Reply	Both work in Richfield
Post #313,536 by a6l6e6x 9/4/09 1:08:55 PM Reply	Both work in Charlotte via Verizon on a Mac's Safari. Alex
Post #313,538 by rcareaga 9/4/09 1:12:06 PM Reply	Re: Need a favor, who can see my blog? Works from Oakland CA, Safari, Mac OS 10.6
Post #313,545 by lincoln 9/4/09 2:39:23 PM Reply	Re: Need a favor, who can see my blog? I can see it fine on Firefox west of Chicago "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Post #313,547 by boxley 9/4/09 2:43:51 PM Reply	good from comcast at home
Post #313,548 by drook 9/4/09 2:46:16 PM Reply	Okay, got a couple of leads http://www.checkdns....er.com&detailed=1 CheckDNS.NET is asking root servers about authoritative NS for domain Answer from ns1.abac.com: domain 'blog.cooklikeyourgrandmother.com' not found Okay, so it seems to be at my host. Log on to the control panel and ... IMPORTANT: Your account is in process of being migrated. Any changes to your account, except for payment related information and support tickets will be disallowed until the migration is complete. Please note that access to all your hosting tools, except for webmail will be disallowed as well. Oh yeah, they're upgrading the hardware. But they specifically said DNS wasn't supposed to be affected. On hold with their support number now, we'll see how that goes. -- Drew
Post #313,549 by boxley 9/4/09 2:51:39 PM Reply	if they are migrating to another IP then it will need to propagate, can take from 24 hrs to several days
Post #313,551 by drook 9/4/09 3:08:56 PM Reply	Just got off the phone There's no reason this should have broken. They're moving my nameserver to another box. Okay, no problem. Set up the DNS records (including the cname) on the new box. Set the TTL on the old box to 5 min. Reset the entries on the old box to set the new one as authoritative. Leave them both in place for several days. Kill the old box. Am I missing something? I'm not a networking guy, but I thought this was a solved problem. -- Drew
Post #313,552 by folkert 9/4/09 3:24:27 PM Reply	I suspected this. Anytime things are moved... GLUE records are required to do it seamlessly. If they don;t add in the Glue Records for ALL the possible entries, and especially things like CNAME entries get confused. Just do you know they only have a Glue record for ns1.abac.com not for ns2.abac.com (in fact ns2.abac.com is showing any IP address when a whois is done) I use Aplus for my domain name stuff... but host my own DNS authoritative server, to avoid these type of things. I also use dyndns paid secondary DNS hosting for scalability. Good luck. DNS is picky, especially lately with all the attention its been receiving about DNS SEC and the problems being caused by people trying to poison caches to exploit IE browser phishing hacks. If you do a "whois -H gregfolkert.net" you'll see the glue records as listed as my secondary DNS provider also publishes them directly as alternate IPs. `whois -H gregfolkert.net [snip] Domain servers in listed order: ns2.mydyndns.org 209.69.32.138 ns3.mydyndns.org 66.37.218.208,64.71.191.27 ns4.mydyndns.org 212.100.224.176 ns5.mydyndns.org 66.37.218.208,66.151.188.46 uno.gregfolkert.net 208.64.37.170`
Post #313,556 by drook 9/4/09 4:21:02 PM Reply	Supposedly they have glue records http://www.robtex.co...com.html#analysis That shows ns1.abac.com and ns2.abac.com being exactly the same. Looks like they're consolidating down to the one server ns1.aplus.net. And should I be seeing the cname for the subdomain in that list? -- Drew
Post #313,560 by folkert 9/4/09 5:16:57 PM Reply	Not in that one... But this one http://www.robtex.co...com.html#analysis I guess they do include everything. Oh well. I'm out of ideas.
Post #313,562 by drook 9/4/09 5:33:49 PM Reply	Probably just hasn't propogated everywhere yet -- Drew
Post #313,563 by folkert 9/4/09 5:35:04 PM Reply	Here is hoping.
Post #313,570 by scoenye 9/4/09 8:43:33 PM Reply	All well on Comcast in VT
Post #313,573 by a6l6e6x 9/4/09 8:55:06 PM Reply	OT: Visiting or test via one of your zombie PCs? :) Alex
Post #313,574 by scoenye 9/4/09 9:10:28 PM Reply	Permanent relocation Followed my GPS, now it keeps saying "Can't get there from here". I guess I'm stuck ;-)
Post #313,575 by boxley 9/4/09 9:27:26 PM Reply	VT? oers, time for a visit :-)
Post #313,582 by scoenye 9/4/09 10:10:14 PM Reply	Swing by on your next trip to Canaduh
Post #313,581 by a6l6e6x 9/4/09 10:03:05 PM Reply	Welcome! Burlington area? Alex
Post #313,583 by scoenye 9/4/09 10:21:53 PM Reply	Thanks! Middlesex, just north of Montpelier.
Post #313,594 by a6l6e6x 9/5/09 9:17:01 AM Reply	That is a beautiful area. In a month or so, the fall foliage will be truly amazing. The hardwood trees, particularly the maples, produce a great variety of bright colors from light green, to yellow, to orange, to deep reds. If you have never been to the New England states in the fall, you are in for a treat. Alex
Post #313,616 by scoenye 9/5/09 8:12:06 PM Reply	Ah yes, leafpeeping season... The others being mud season, blackfly season and winter ;-) I have done a stint in this area before, only not as a permanent resident.
Post #313,572 by Another Scott 9/4/09 8:45:55 PM 9/4/09 8:47:46 PM Reply	Both work on Cox in VA. Oh, I'm using a non-default DNS though. (Thanks again, Greg.) Cheers, Scott. Edited by Another Scott Sept. 4, 2009, 08:47:46 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #313,576 by boxley 9/4/09 9:27:55 PM Reply	works with Cox dns as well :-)
Post #313,589 by folkert 9/5/09 12:06:40 AM Reply	Fine by me. Still have yet to come close to my cap
Post #313,577 by static 9/4/09 9:32:29 PM Reply	Both okay from the Land Down Under. However, I am atypical: I have my own DNS server which looks things up from the root. And I don't visit your sites daily, but I have visited in the last two weeks. Wade. Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers? A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
Post #313,587 by malraux 9/4/09 11:06:02 PM Reply	Works Comcast Detroit Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #313,664 by jbrabeck 9/6/09 8:52:52 PM Reply	Firefox over Centurytel DSL in Wisconsin sees it.

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