Strange DNS Problems

**JayBee** · April 25th, 2006, 04:51 AM

Hi

We are using SBS Server 2003, when we visit certain domains for example ebay.co.uk our dns server changes the domain to ebay.com.co.uk, which obviously doesnt exist meaning we get timeouts on our machines.

Anyone know what maybe causing this?

regards

Jaybee

**futuretech** · April 25th, 2006, 10:09 AM

Possibly a bad pointer look in the DNS pointers and see if you have an entry pointing to that domain or ping the IP of ebay.co.uk and see what the IP resolves to and then look for that entry and delete it.

**JayBee** · April 25th, 2006, 10:53 AM

Hiya,

Thanks for the reply.

This is a fairly new setup on this server and we copied the settings exactly as they where on our old server, we dont actually have any pointers that I can see in place other than ones for inside our network.

Regards

Jaybee

**JayBee** · April 25th, 2006, 11:00 AM

This is the result of our nslookups. Dont know if it helps at all.

> include.ebaystatic.com
Server: sbs-1.ourdomain.co.uk
Address: 192.168.1.5

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Got answer:
HEADER:
opcode = QUERY, id = 5, rcode = NXDOMAIN
header flags: response, auth. answer, want recursion, recursion avail.
questions = 1, answers = 0, authority records = 1, additional = 0

QUESTIONS:
include.ebaystatic.com.ourdomain.co.uk, type = A, class = IN
AUTHORITY RECORDS:
-> ourdomain.co.uk
ttl = 3600 (1 hour)
primary name server = sbs-1.ourdomain.co.uk
responsible mail addr = administrator.ourdomain.co.uk
serial = 1209
refresh = 900 (15 mins)
retry = 600 (10 mins)
expire = 86400 (1 day)
default TTL = 3600 (1 hour)

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Got answer:
HEADER:
opcode = QUERY, id = 6, rcode = NXDOMAIN
header flags: response, want recursion, recursion avail.
questions = 1, answers = 0, authority records = 1, additional = 0

QUESTIONS:
include.ebaystatic.com.co.uk, type = A, class = IN
AUTHORITY RECORDS:
-> co.uk
ttl = 10789 (2 hours 59 mins 49 secs)
primary name server = ns1.nic.uk
responsible mail addr = hostmaster.nominet.org.uk
serial = 1145980625
refresh = 7200 (2 hours)
retry = 300 (5 mins)
expire = 2419200 (28 days)
default TTL = 471 (7 mins 51 secs)

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DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
timeout (2 secs)
*** Request to sbs-1.ourdomain.co.uk timed-out
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