DNS won't resolve www.msn.com!

[Richardkl]

Runinng a nt4 server with dns. I have people wanting to goto to

http://www.msn.com,

the nt4 dns won't resolve it. If I try to ping

http://www.msm.com

from the server I get "bad ip address" returned.Using tracert I get "unable to resolve target system name

http://www.msn.com"

all other sites have no problems.

any ideas?

 

[brianinms]

People are still running NT4?

 

[Richardkl]

Yes, nt4, I have 2000 and 2003 servers setup and other than this dns problem I find it the fastest and most reliable of all.(on same hardware). After 10 years of service and total down time in the minutes it can't be beat. Again any ideas about the reason of only Microsoft sites not being able to be resolved with DNS?

 

[GlenJohnson]

NT4 is still very reliable, the only problem is it's not been updated by MS as far as networking goes. You might have to put

http://WWW.MSN.COM

into the NT Server's hosts file.

look

http://www.msn.com

... found
Name : us.port.msn.com.nsatc.net (.NET | Network)
Aliases :

http://www.msn.com

(.COM | US Commercial)
Address : 65.54.152.126

Here's from some IP tools I've got.
Good luck.

Glen A. Johnson
Johnson Computer Consulting

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[elgrandeperro]

I would query your server to see if it thinks it is in charge of msn.com.
nslookup - IPADDRESSOFSERVER
> set debug
> set type=ns
> msn.com
and what ip does

http://www.msn.com

return?

nslookup

http://www.msn.com

IPADDRESSOFSERVER

eugene

 

[egodette]

Sounds like the DNS server doesn't have a proper forwarder record to point it to the public dns. Or has a bad entry for msn.