just noticed I get different IP lookups from OpenDNS and BTs DNS servers for
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12 years ago
just noticed I get different IP lookups from OpenDNS and BTs DNS servers for
Non-authoritative answer: Name:
From Virgin. What two addresses are you getting? And how?
I am using 'nslookup' from a command prompt under Vista and on my first attempt forgot the trailing '.' which gave an unusual result of
Non-authoritative answer: Name:
I remember from when ElReg were hacked they have hosting in UK and USA, quite likely they at least give different DNS results based on the geographical location ...
Perhaps one of their sites is having problems, or perhaps they're mid-move and you're seeing some stale DNS results.
just a ping, returning the IP ... BT's started with a 9x. range , OpenDNS is 50.57.15.204
My VM connection is through a Linux box I remote into, my BT connection is into my Laptop.
I set the BT router to return OpenDNS for its DNS servers, and things are fine now. Just unusual to be unable to access a site for so long.
Authoritative cost I run my own server
dig any
; DiG 9.7.3 any
Using BTs DNS I get:
Non-authoritative answer: Name:
Using OpenDNS:
Non-authoritative answer: Name:
However, both those addresses do resolve to the site - both hosted by Rackspace, but one is notionally theregister.com and the other the .co.uk
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