rnijmeh
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Re: How to tell if Rogers blocks my URL? said by Ian:Doesn't resolve for me (Rogers DNS). Does if I use Google's public DNS.
Thanks for testing Ian! So what can I do to ensure Rogers DNS DOES resolve the site? Is there someone I can contact? |
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| said by rnijmeh:Thanks for testing Ian! So what can I do to ensure Rogers DNS DOES resolve the site? Is there someone I can contact?
I would contact the host provider. I'm not an expert, but saw this before with someone else that had a new site hosted. I'd bet that the provider didn't publish the DNS information properly. But can't be certain. In any case, they could at least re-do it. Might take a day or so to propagate.
You can test whether a particular DNS server is resolving that correctly with NSLOOKUP in the windows command prompt. As in this example. Change the DNS server as needed. In this example 8.8.8.8 is Google public DNS, 64.71.255.198 is dns.rnc.net.cable.rogers.com as set by rogers in my modem/wireless router. Adjust with the server command to test others as needed.
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How can it be a Rogers DNS problem if certain Rogers customers can access the site using the Rogers DNS. I have had no problem accessing the OP's site using the Rogers DNS, and a few others here have not reported problems either. |
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| said by yyzlhr :How can it be a Rogers DNS problem if certain Rogers customers can access the site using the Rogers DNS. I have had no problem accessing the OP's site using the Rogers DNS, and a few others here have not reported problems either.
Care to show which Rogers DNS server resolves the site correctly?
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rnijmeh
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Thanks for the tip, Ian! I'm sending this thread to my web host to see what they can do. |
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said by Ian:said by yyzlhr :How can it be a Rogers DNS problem if certain Rogers customers can access the site using the Rogers DNS. I have had no problem accessing the OP's site using the Rogers DNS, and a few others here have not reported problems either.
Care to show which Rogers DNS server resolves the site correctly? 67.71.255.198 |
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1 edit | said by yyzlhr :said by Ian:said by yyzlhr :How can it be a Rogers DNS problem if certain Rogers customers can access the site using the Rogers DNS. I have had no problem accessing the OP's site using the Rogers DNS, and a few others here have not reported problems either.
Care to show which Rogers DNS server resolves the site correctly? 67.71.255.198 Think a number may be off...Sure that's not an IP address for something internal to you, like a modem?
> 67.71.255.198
Server: [8.8.4.4]
Address: 8.8.4.4
*** [8.8.4.4] can't find 67.71.255.198: Non-existent domain
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| Oops made a typo. First digit should be 64. |
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| said by yyzlhr :Oops made a typo. First digit should be 64.
Interesting. That's the same server I had tried before. Maybe the problem is intermittent and indeed internal to Rogers. Or it's been fixed.
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| It's been working for me since this thread started. |
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| said by yyzlhr :It's been working for me since this thread started.
As I showed in my screen-shot, that same server timed-out rather than respond. And that was done seconds before I posted it. Again, probably an intermittent issue.
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Yep, something's off with Rogers's DNS server. BlockAid/OpenDNS resolves the server fine, but with Rogers, the request times out. |
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rnijmeh
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Thanks for all your help!
Okay so here's an update... got an email from a very technically savvy customer who was trying to reach my site several times, but it wouldn't work reliably.
He figured out that my secondary DNS has no record for my site - so if the primary DNS fails, there's no fall back.
So I sent this info to my we host and they added the 2nd DNS... it's propagated (this was done 3 days ago), so it *should* be working now.
Could anyone who's on Rogers (who couldn't access before) test it out again to see if the site shows up now (finally!)?
Thanks for all your help everyone! |
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| said by rnijmeh:Could anyone who's on Rogers (who couldn't access before) test it out again to see if the site shows up now (finally!)?
Thanks for all your help everyone!
> server 8.8.4.4
Default Server: [8.8.4.4]
Address: 8.8.4.4
> plr.me
Server: [8.8.4.4]
Address: 8.8.4.4
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: plr.me
Address: 69.160.53.72
> server 64.71.255.198
Default Server: dns.rnc.net.cable.rogers.com
Address: 64.71.255.198
> plr.me
Server: dns.rnc.net.cable.rogers.com
Address: 64.71.255.198
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: plr.me
Address: 69.160.53.72
Seems to be working. Then again, it looked like it was intermittent before.
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As near as I can tell, whenever I've had to research such issues for clients in the past - (site not coming up or outdated site showing after a server move) - with Rogers and Shaw notably, they appear to hang on to cached info longer than some ISPs. Some ISPs are quicker to dump and do fresh lookups - sometimes a long TTL is involved - i.e. your DNS record tells the ISP they can lookup less frequently because the info is to be considered stable. But there are other times, regardless of a lowered TTL (24hrs) that had been in place for 2-3 weeks prior to a move, I've had clients pulling up their old pages still 5-7 days after a DNS change (all cached info purged from browser). Any "web accelerator" services may also be caching the bad/outdated content. |
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