Re: [Myexperiment-discuss] myExperiment wiki is down....

[Lucy Bridges]

Alan Williams wrote:
> Sean Bechhofer wrote:
>> If we haven't already done so, we should report this to our systems
>> administration as it may be a symptom of some other problem.
> 
> I've reported it to our dutyoffice.  I've had wiki.myexperiment.org
> disappearing and then reappearing so quickly that my ping script didn't
> detect it :-(
> 
> I can manually ping it and it is not there.  Then a few pings (often
> just one) later it reappears.  My guess is that we must have multiple
> DNS servers and at least one of them is corrupt.  That's just my guess
> though.

A check on http://www.squish.net/dnscheck/dnscheck.cgi returns:

25.0% of queries will end in failure at 143.53.238.4 (dns0.brad.ac.uk) -
returned SERVFAIL code

25.0% of queries will end in failure at 143.53.238.5 (dns1.brad.ac.uk) -
returned SERVFAIL code

25.0% of queries will be returned by 152.78.128.78 (dns0.soton.ac.uk)
websites1.ecs.soton.ac.uk.      1800    IN      A       152.78.189.43

25.0% of queries will be returned by 152.78.128.79 (dns1.soton.ac.uk)
websites1.ecs.soton.ac.uk.      1800    IN      A       152.78.189.43