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Re: What does DNS request timed out mean?

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From: Adam Carheden
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 00:00
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Michael Dwyer wrote:
> Here's a kind of stupid question:  did you try to hit it again? I've

Please, give me a little more credit than that!  I guess I do ask a lot
of stupid questions on this newsgroup (once I asked what an ATM card
was...), has it earned me a reputation?  Yes, of course I've tried it
twice.  And twice again.  And again this morning.  Is there a way to set
the timeout on an nslookup (I'm setting at an NT box here, no man
pages)?  Netscape waits about 10 seconds before it gives me an error
message.  Is it trying multiple times, or does it set a longer timeout?

The good news is that whois reveals that juggernautsearch.com is
registered with Network Solutions and was last updated 23-sep-1999.  It
reveals two nameservers (ns[1|2].playmate.nu), neither of which respond
to a ping.  Okay, now something new is happening.  nslookup waits for
55.62 seconds and responds that juggernautsearch.com doesn't exist.  A
traceroute to either of the nameservers completes the 1st 14 hops
successfully, drops the middle packet on the 15th hop, and drops all
three packets for hops 16-30.  The 1st and 3rd packets on the 15th hop
completed in 30/35 ms.  The 15th hop is gige-g9-0.gsr12012.sjc.he.net 
The first two octets of it's IP match those of the nameservers.  he.net
is Hurricane Electric Internet Services and they're running apache. 
I've e-mail their tech support.  Anyone have any more ideas for me. 
I'll be dammed if I have to write my own robot.  Anyone know of another
free robot for perl or something I can run on win32?

-- 
Adam
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