Domain Resolving Problem

Seth Brundle

I recently moved a site from one host to another. For some bizarre reason my antique work PC running win2k (up to date) has decided not to open the www. site and automatically contacts the old host and therefore gets a wrong page.
However, if I omit the www. portion and just enter the domain name it loads fine. The same applies to opening any file from the site.

This occurs in MSIE 6, FF, and also in cmd. If I ping or tracert it I get the old IP. The only positive thing Im getting is if use nslookup as below.

Any ideas?

C:>nslookup www.kbannon.com
*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.1.254: Non-existent domain
*** Default servers are not available
Server:  UnKnown
Address:  192.168.1.254

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    www.kbannon.com
Address:  216.235.153.14

seamus

ipconfig /flushdns
?

Seth Brundle

nope!

dahamsta

EDIT: Sorry, that's probably your router.

Who's your upstream? Have you got dig on the machine? If not, install it and run:

dig @ROUTER hostname
dig @UPSTREAMNAMESERVER hostname

Then post the results. Possibly you can do this with nslookup, I don't use it any more.

adam

Seth Brundle

The PC is connected to a simple LAN. The €ircon Netopia modem is hooked up to the same hub. The domain opens fine on all other PCs in the network.
I also had my PC connected to a different network last night and again only it gave the prob.
Weird!

[before anyone asks, the cache, etc for the two browsers was cleared many times!]

dahamsta

Anything in your hosts file?

Seth Brundle

I tried that dig as per http://pigtail.net/LRP/dig/
and got the following:-
[I haven't used dig before so if there are other possible commands which may be helpful, then let me know]

C:\dig>dig  kbannon.com.  NS

; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> kbannon.com. NS
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;kbannon.com.                   IN      NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
kbannon.com.            86400   IN      NS      ns3.bona.us.
kbannon.com.            86400   IN      NS      ns4.bona.us.
kbannon.com.            86400   IN      NS      ns5.bona.us.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns3.bona.us.            28931   IN      A       216.235.153.5
ns4.bona.us.            31052   IN      A       216.235.153.6
ns5.bona.us.            54517   IN      A       216.235.153.7

;; Query time: 4326 msec
;; SERVER: 198.161.156.1#53(198.161.156.1)
;; WHEN: Wed Oct 19 15:04:15 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 138

C:\dig>dig  www.kbannon.com.  NS

; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> www.kbannon.com. NS
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.kbannon.com.               IN      NS

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
kbannon.com.            10800   IN      SOA     ns3.bona.us. support.blazernetwo
rk.com. 1127995133 10800 3600 604800 86400

;; Query time: 240 msec
;; SERVER: 198.161.156.1#53(198.161.156.1)
;; WHEN: Wed Oct 19 15:04:40 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 102

Seth Brundle

Ken Shabby wrote:

Anything in your hosts file?

yes - lines 18-21

127.0.0.1 localhost
# FastInternet hosts section
69.41.248.250 www.kbannon.com
# End of FastInternet hosts section

dahamsta

Delete it, close and restart your browser. Does it ring any bells? I doubt a hijacker would add arbitrary hostnames in there, so it was probably either added manually or by something you installed. Webserver perhaps?

(If you're still having trouble after you delete it, flushdns again.)

adam

Seth Brundle

After a two attempts I managed to get it working.
Thanks
[every day is a learning day!]

yaay - now I can see my sig pic again (and my 'badly in need of proper design' site!)

dahamsta

Waffer thin.