Hello there DP members, My site [ http://www.darkmindz.com ], gets alot of downtime for alot of users across UK / US. There are 2 reasons in mind, One: Firewall / IPtables freak out and ban hostnames that are used by those users. Two: ISPs blocking the site, due to the fact its hacking oriented. so, how can I check? one issue I noticed, users that cant access the site `get server not found`, can always access the site from IP but not domain :| http://72.20.10.53/ so yea, how can I make sure, any help is appreciated.
hi, Ask any of the users who cannot access the site, to do a traceroute to your domain and then display the result so that the exact location, where the domain gets blocked can be traced.
I just checked your site, and it seems the dns is totally dead. That can explain why customers cannot reach your domain, but still can visit IP
Hm, I will be posting the site hosts file, and whatever info you need to help resolve this, please PM me or post here.
I want to know one thing, why does my traceroute http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=darkmindz.com, goes to Reached Destination]ns2.msxsecurity.be, and we got nothing to do with that domain :|
It just shows rDNS for your IP is set as ns2.mxsecurity.be. Your IP might be used by another customer before.
ah, so that shouldnt affect anyone right? btw, I cant get the files atm `at school`, once I get back I will get the files needed, can you tell me what files would I need for this? other than the site zone file ofcourse. another issue: Tracing route to www.darkmindz.com [72.20.10.53] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms office.no-wires.co.uk [10.168.1.1] 2 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 87-194-180-1.bethere.co.uk [87.194.180.1] 3 * * * Request timed out. 4 14 ms * * 213.161.72.69 5 15 ms 14 ms 21 ms so-1-0-0.mpr1.lhr2.uk.above.net [64.125.28.38] 6 86 ms 86 ms 87 ms so-1-1-0.mpr1.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.31.186] 7 129 ms 113 ms 113 ms so-1-0-0.mpr3.iah1.us.above.net [64.125.29.37] 8 144 ms 144 ms 143 ms so-1-1-0.mpr3.lax9.us.above.net [64.125.25.45] 9 163 ms 162 ms 163 ms 172.27.0.41 10 160 ms * * edge08-ge.lax1.staminus.net [72.20.0.8] 11 * * * Request timed out. 12 163 ms 160 ms 160 ms csr1-ge.irv1.staminus.net [72.20.0.180] 13 * * * Request timed out. 14 * * * Request timed out. 15 * * * Request timed out. 16 * * * Request timed out. whenever someone traceroutes the site, it times out at my datacenter, staminus.. weird sorry for all the trouble, but this DNS issue has been a big issue that is not getting fixed :S
It seems you are not familiar with server management. You should have an admin to setup server for you. It costs some, but at the end, it will save your time and headache. If you don't trust outside people, contact staminus staff to do it for you is the best
so we changed IP of main DNS, and everyone that couldnt access the server, can now.. and the old DNS errors are gone, but now a new ones came up lol... anyways, looks like the owner was right, one of the ISPs was nullrouting the IP of main DNS.. if you couldnt access the site before, can you try now, thanks
ask that user to use opendns.com configurations to test... The blocking is not always the issue with ISPs.. They may also have some DNS issue on their end .......