DNS settings

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Daniel Patzwall

A friend of mine has recently switch servers and now I
cannot access his site by his .com addy instead I have to
type in his ip addy. But when I do this all of the pictures
do not load and are refering back to his old server. He is
telling me this is a problem on my end and that nobody else
is having problems viewing his page. When it loads up
every link refers to his old server and not his new server
addy but the .com is still the same. I tried emptying all
of my cache files and still no luck. Is there away to fix
this?
 
To clear your DNS cache, type the following at the command prompt:

ipconfig /flushdns

If this doesn't fix things, try pinging his web server (e.g. ping
www.microsoft.com). You might not get a response (as many web servers no
longer respond to pings), but it should resolve the name to an IP address,
which you can check against the one you have written down to see if it's the
same.

If not, it is a DNS problem.

Regards

Oli
 
Do you have his website SAVED as for offline browsing?
Try setting the browser cache to check for new pages at
every visit as a test.

When you attempt to ping his dns name, what address does
it resolve to? With the page onscreen, with the missing
pix and all, view the SOURCE of the page. Unless its
something complex, you will likely see the HREF links to
the pictures---what address are they pointing to?

Whose DNS are you using to resolve the names? If the
changes to the DNS entry's IP address have been changed
within the past couple days, it sounds like your DNS (or
ISPs DNS) hasn't received the record changes from their
provider. The Top Level Domain servers may not have
gotten the message out yet or maybe haven't even received
the update yet. You could check the status of the DNS
entry with the REGISTRAR and/or hosting DNS to see. If
the address change is with someone altogether different,
it's likely that its just a transition issue that should
be cleared up within a day or so.

In the meantime, you COULD populate your HOSTS file with
a direct resolution of with the NEW address. Look in
windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.
 
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