AOL problems connecting to SOG sites

[Cynthia Daniel]

Thanks, Holly. Yes, the contention of my isp and myself is that there is either something amiss with AOL's name servers and/or one of the isp's along the route traveled. And, one of the reasons it would come up one time and not another is that they have many name servers and rotate between them.

[Mike McCarty]

Typing this: http://65.127.237.190

Brings back the followning:

The web site you have requested may be experiencing technical difficulties due to a busy or broken server.

Please try again by clicking the Reload icon on your navigation bar or, if that doesn't work, you may want to return to the site at a later time.

502 Connection Hangup

I don't know how to get to the DOS command.

[Holly Snyder]

Try this, go to http://www.dnsstuff.com/

First, under "DNS Lookup" type in "forum.portraitartist.com", or any site you can't access. It will give you the IP number for it.

Then, under "Ping" enter that IP number. Hopefully it will return with some times that it took a sample packet of data to reach that destination.

Then, under "Tracert" enter that IP number. If Pinging worked, this will return with the route that packet of data took to get to its destination. If the packet of data doesn't make it, the last entry in the table is likely where the data got hosed.

Then enter that last IP address in the "IPWHOISLookup", and it will give you some info on who owns the server where the data got lost.

Hope that leads you somewhere!

[Michele Rushworth]

And I thought AOL was supposed to be so easy. From the problems so many people have with it, it's a wonder they have any customers left at all!

[Cynthia Daniel]

Originally Posted by Michele Rushworth

And I thought AOL was supposed to be so easy. From the problems so many people have with it, it's a wonder they have any customers left at all!

There used to be a little banner, very professionally done, that some web designers used to put on their sites. It said "AOL sucks."

[Cynthia Daniel]

Mike,

I think you have XP. Go to Start | Programs | Accessories | C Prompt. That gets you into DOS if you ever need to.

Holly,

I did a tracert thru your method and it said Reached Destination, but it also said "missing reverse DNS entry" at a certain point. Do you know what that means?

Of course, someone with AOL needs to do it from AOL.

[Mike McCarty]

I got the same thing Cynthia.

I did a check of "reverse DNS" through Holly's link and it came back with the following:

Answer:
No PTR records exist for 65.127.237.190. [Neg TTL=86400 seconds]

Details:
ns1.stl-net.net. (an authoritative nameserver for 237.127.65.in-addr.arpa., which is in charge of the reverse DNS for 65.127.237.190)
says that there are no PTR records for 65.127.237.190.

To get reverse DNS set up for 65.127.237.190, you need to speak to your Internet provider. You could also
check with [email protected]., who is in charge of the 237.127.65.in-addr.arpa. zone.

Note that all Internet accessible hosts are expected to have a reverse DNS entry (per RFC1912 2.1),
and many mailservers (such as AOL) will likely block E-mail from mailservers with no reverse DNS entry.
To see the reverse DNS traversal, to make sure that all DNS servers are reporting the correct results, you can Click Here.