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DNS Issue due to AD Naming Booboo
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Started this discussion. Last reply by John McGrath May 15, 2010.

 

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John McGrath replied to Stuart's discussion 'DNS Issue due to AD Naming Booboo'
Glad you got this resolved.
May 15, 2010
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Stuart replied to Stuart's discussion 'DNS Issue due to AD Naming Booboo'
All is now ok - well almost. It dawned on me whenthe hoster asked something that the 'other change' made was that the site is now using Wordpress and this has canonical redirects builtin - so every request to www was being redircted to…
May 14, 2010
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Stuart replied to Stuart's discussion 'DNS Issue due to AD Naming Booboo'
John - without the A record or the lm/hosts entry then traceroute doesn't work as the internal DNS believes it to be a part of the AD setup. Once an entry is in place the traceroute takes you right through to the correct box. I know it stops…
May 14, 2010
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John McGrath replied to Stuart's discussion 'DNS Issue due to AD Naming Booboo'
Have you tried Traceroute to find what the last hop is, without the A record info in your lm/hosts file? If it is stopping at your DNS, Then it is not your host. Your GET message is showing that your Domain name was moved... no forwarder?
May 13, 2010
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Stuart replied to Stuart's discussion 'DNS Issue due to AD Naming Booboo'
And in case anyone hadn't realised - then charitydomain.com is not the name of the doamin. I'm just using that to maintain a semblence of privacy.
May 13, 2010
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Stuart replied to Stuart's discussion 'DNS Issue due to AD Naming Booboo'
I;ve also tried live http header plugin for firefox : http://www.charitydomain.com/ GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.vinecc.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100315 Firefox/3.5.9 Accept:…
May 13, 2010
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Stuart replied to Stuart's discussion 'DNS Issue due to AD Naming Booboo'
Hi Adam ... if I don't use OpenDNS settings and just rely on the internal DNS to forward stuff I don't even get to www.whatever - however, when using an external DNS or the A record is in place I can telnet to port 80 no problems. The…
May 13, 2010
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Adam Ruth replied to Stuart's discussion 'DNS Issue due to AD Naming Booboo'
One possibility is that the server may be redirecting to a different host name, one that is in OpenDNS but not in your local DNS. Can you telnet to port 80 when using the local DNS or connect with something like curl?
May 13, 2010
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DNS Issue due to AD Naming Booboo

Hi all - really struggling with this one.I support a charity that has a W2k3 server setup running AD with an AD name of charityname.com. This was setup some years back. Roll on a few years and they've also registered the web domain of (you've guessed it) charitydomain.com and were surprised when they couldn't reach it.As I was away for a few days and unable to remote in I simply talked their most techy person through creating an lm/hosts entry that pointed…See More
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