Problems connecting to wtcdemolition.com
Hi guys,
I just wanted to centralize all discussion on the problem of connecting to this website. I had noticed various blog posts ending up with comments related to this problem.
One workaround I use is to bookmark the numeric IP
This is not perfect, whenever I post something, the website would redirect me to the base URL (wtcdemolition.com) which ends up redirected again to another website. To get around this again, I just click the back button of my browser till I get to a page that loaded previously with the numeric IP then I reload that page.
When using the numeric IP I also cant see the avatar pics, but that's no big deal.
I think the problem is some DNS servers do not respond with the proper IP. The problem is not consistent, some days they work, other days they don't. I think this is unexpected of a DNS server and may be a form of sabotage.
If someone knows of an open DNS server that is not affected by the problem, please share it's IP.
Oh yeah, Alek Hiddel got around the problem by going through anonymouse.org
You can try the link below then bookmark it. You would then be connecting through their server.
http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://www.wtcdemolition.com/...
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a matter of trust
Just to be on the safe side, I haven't supplied my user name and password when using the anonymous.org server. I have no idea who owns or operates it.
More on anonymouse, it
More on anonymouse, it didn't work the second time, I got the fake site of doom. I used another anonymizer whose name I won't post here and that worked. Something is seriously messing with access to this blog.
i get directed to a search site
With a pretty girl's picture. This site has the wtcdemolition.com domain. The page info shows the data comes from
http://i.nuseek.com/
Registry Whois
Domain Name: nuseek.com
Status: clientDeleteProhibited, clientTransferProhibited
Registrar: ENOM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.enom.com
Referral URL: http://www.enom.com
Expiration Date: 2009-08-25
Creation Date: 2005-08-25
Last Update Date: 2007-07-12
Name Servers:
dns1.name-services.com
dns2.name-services.com
dns3.name-services.com
dns4.name-services.com
dns5.name-services.com
IP Address: 64.74.223.6
Website Status: active
Server Type: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Alexa Trend/Rank: 1 Month: 17,790 3 Month: 14,308
Page Views per Visit: 1 Month: 1.4 3 Month: 1.4
Cache Date: 2007-08-08 09:26:23 MST
Compare Archived Data: 2007-05-12
official status of DNS issues
Hey all, I looked into this and it seems my registrar has been in a bit of a funkadoodle with ICANN... I'll see if ICANN transfer the registration to a more reputable operation--hopefully that is all--no conspiracy but of course I won't rule that out!)
What's Bob Parsons done this
What's Bob 'GoDaddy' Parsons done this time?
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"But truthfully, I don't really know. We've had trouble getting a handle on Building No. 7."
~~ Dr. Shyam Sunder - Acting Director Building and Fire Research Laboratory (NIST)
this doesn't offer much insight into the problems
but i just wanted to add that i've rarely (twice, maybe) had a problem accessing this site. i just went to wtcdemolition.com and clicked on the link to the blog and it worked just fine.
Hi Larry,
Hi Larry,
The problem persists with my DNS server (58.69.254.3) I still can't access wtcdemolition.com unless I use numeric IP
like i said
i didn't have much insight into the problem, but i hope you guys can figure it out because it's probably keeping away more than a few people from posting here.
I having problems accessing
I having problems accessing the site again, except by IP address. I could be wrong but, I don't think it is a Godaddy issue. It may be related to the nameservers given to RT by his hosting service that are plugged into Godaddy's registrant info.
dns
if it works via IP address only, its definitely a DNS (domain name server) issue.
ive never had any problems here.
-m7
just in case it helps fix the problem,
i was able to get to the site but only the first thread was showing but the things on the sides were all showing.. everything has been fine for the last two days for me..
DNS issue, trailing slashes, misconfigured www. subdomain.
Queer Issues I've noticed is that if I accesss http://wtcdemolition.com/blog/ with the trailing slash there, it loads up this site, if I leave the slash off like http://wtcdemolition.com/blog then I get redirected to random domain-parking-scamspam-sites.
This is what curl reports for the headers for both accesses:
(with trailing slash:)
[root@destroyer]# curl -I http://wtcdemolition.com/blog/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:18:41 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP-CGI/0.1b
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.7
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=78e9d502a5832d1d46496f08dd7342ab; expires=Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:52:01 GMT; path=/; domain=.wtcdemolition.com
Cache-Control: max-age=1209600
Expires: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:18:41 GMT
Last-Modified: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:18:41 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Versus without the tailing slash:
[root@destroyer]# curl -I http://wtcdemolition.com/blog
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:18:46 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP-CGI/0.1b
Location: http://www.wtcdemolition.com/blog/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Note how the second one, without the trailing slash, is serving me a redirect to the www. subdomain of wtcdemolition.com ....
Now, if I enter www.wtcdemolition.com in my browser I consistently get these spamscam parking sites. Without the www. subdomain, I get to your site. Also, I notice that your links to blog and wiki on your homepage lack the trailing slash, and so this redirect to domainparking land happens.
So the problem seems twofold
#1) why does leaving off the trailing slash force a redirect to the www. subdomain?
#2) why does the www. subdomain point somewhere different than the plain domain?
here are some truncated dig outputs for the www verses the plain one:
without www: dig wtcdemolition.com
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;wtcdemolition.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
wtcdemolition.com. 13924 IN A 70.47.30.95
with www.: dig www.wtcdemolition.com
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.wtcdemolition.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.wtcdemolition.com. 3583 IN A 8.15.231.100
Note the two different IP addresses.
DNS issues pending resolution
Hey all, sorry for the DNS induced issues. it seems to have been the result of my domain registrar selling off its registrations and I'm in the process of establishing contact with the new registrar. I've noticed similar problems to those described here and also that it tends to work if you include the " / " after "blog" in the URL. Hopefully this will work consistently--I'm also having problems receiving email so if you've written and gotten a bounce back that's why, sorry. I don't suspect foul play (yet) and hope everything will be ship shape soon....
slash
Hi G, I can't connect even with the slash. I can only connect with numeric IP.
shouldn't be long
I'm in touch with the new registrar, they need something more from me in order for me to access their control panel so I can confirm the nameservers and then we'll know for sure...