This is getting stranger. I got the _188 code updates installed. ad_network_ads_188.txt is populated with the DP webpage ads.digitalpoint.com HTML code - not the ads for rotation. Any clue why this is happening? Here's part of the contents of ad_network_ads_188.txt : 1110206977|204.251.15.207|<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>ads.digitalpoint.com</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <link href="/style/default.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <script> <!-- function focusit(){document.searchfield.Keywords.focus();} // --> </script> <script> <!-- if (window!= top) top.location.href=location.href // --> </script> </head> <body onLoad=focusit()> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="162" height="66" rowspan="2" valign="top"><a href="http://www.directnic.com/?7711"><img src="/img/default/directnic.gif" width="162" height="66" border=0></a></td> <td width="100%" height="40" colspan="2" align="right" background="/img/default/head_top.gif" class="white19">ads.digitalpoint.com<img src="/img/default/s.gif" width="8" height="40" align="absmiddle"></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="26" colspan="2" align="right" valign="middle" background="/img/default/head_mid1.gif" class="white19"><span class="white14">The Requested URL was not found on this server.</span><img src="/img/default/s.gif" width="8" height="26" align="absmiddle"></td> </tr> <form method=get action="/result.php" name="searchfield"> <input type="hidden" name="host" value="ads.digitalpoint.com"> <input type="hidden" name="search" value="Y"> <tr> <td width="162" height="28" valign="bottom" background="/img/default/head_btm.gif"><img src="/img/default/head_btm_lt.gif" width="13" height="28"></td> <td align="center" valign="middle" background="/img/default/head_btm.gif" id="search"><a href="/verify.php?kw="><img src="/img/default/s.gif" height=1 width=1 border=0 alt=" "></a><a href="/click.php?byebye=1"><img src="/img/default/s.gif" height=1 width=1 border=0></a>search the web: <input type="text" name="Keywords" class="textfield" value=""> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Search" class="submit"> <input type="hidden" name="original" class="textfield" value=""> <img src="/img/default/s.gif" width="8" height="28" align="absmiddle"> </td> <td width="162" valign="bottom" background="/img/default/head_btm.gif"><img src="/img/default/s.gif" width="162" height="1"></td> </tr> </form> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <!-- Category 2 Begin --> <td width="33%"> <table Code (markup):
That is not part of my website. And 204.251.15.207 is not the right IP address. Looks like maybe your web server is making web requests through a proxy server or something that is spitting that out to you.
Thanks. The address belongs to my registrar / DNS provider. The page is used for parked domains. I've opened a TT with them. While I'm waiting. . . I tried to use my hosts file by adding: 216.248.176.20 ads.digitalpoint.com and it returned an error. Can you think of a work around? -jay
I'm still wrestling with my registrar / DNS provider. In the meantime I'm using nameservers from a friend and the ads are displaying on my site now without an entry in /etc/hosts for dp.com AND I just revalidated. I still do not know what caused the ads to stop working and my site to fail validation in the first place. The site was running fine the entire time This situation has given me a first hand understanding of the origin of primitive religions. -jay P.S. Shawn, I apologize about PM'ing you on this. I didn't read your signature until your post yesterday in another thread. It won't happen again.