[UCIMC-Tech] Ironically, you can't get to news-gazette.com from the IMC building

[Josh King]

Indeed, it seems that the problem is that their DNS server isn't talking 
to ours? I've more or less ruled out a firewall issue, or an issue with 
our own DNS records. I'll see if I can get some more logging data from 
our DNS server to figure out the problem.

On 12/16/2008 01:54 PM, Stuart Levy wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:27:30PM -0600, Danielle Chynoweth wrote:
>> Nicole, Stephen, and Chris all report the problem from the computer lab and
>> production room, FYI. - D
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Josh King<josh at ucimc.org>  wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know why this would be, but I'll be in the building at 6pm at the
>>> latest today, and will take a look.
>
> A clue: from zeco,
>     telnet  www.news-gazette.com  80
>
> yields this:
>
> Trying 192.168.11.11...
> Connected to www.news-gazette.com.chambana.net.
> [...]
>
> (and lynx returns the chambana.net generic page).
>
> Also,
>      host www.news-gazette.com
>
> returns:
>      Host www.news-gazette.com not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
>
> while "host" for some other things, e.g. new.math.uiuc.edu,
> return the expected result.
>
> So it looks like some DNS-related problem,
> rather than firewall trouble.
>
> Congratulations on getting the new firewall going, Josh!
>
>>> On 12/16/2008 01:15 PM, Danielle Chynoweth wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Josh and tech -
>>>>
>>>> Internet access in the building has gotten lots better - we can now
>>>> reach google pages. thanks!
>>>>
>>>> In an ironic twist of events, we now can not reach news-gazette.com
>>>> <http://news-gazette.com>. Since we use this as a major source for news
>>>> tips, anyway we can get our firewall to play nice with this domain?
>>>>
>>>> much thanks!
>>>> Danielle
>>>>
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but because there is no such thing as a final goal." -Rudolf Rocker