Whats up with lotus.com? DNSReport shows all of its nameservers are down

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ping lotus.com ping www-10.lotus.com

ping lotus-00.lotus.com

ping www-14.lotus.com

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Subject: Whats up with lotus.com? DNSReport shows all of its nameservers are down.

Possibly they’re just blocking ping packets - a lot of firewalls have that as an option…

Stephen Lister
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Subject: No, I’m having similar problems with browser.

Could access www.lotus.com from home, not from the openntf server. Other sites (IBM) were accessible.

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Subject: RE: No, I’m having similar problems with browser.

Can’t confirm that, at least for the last couple of days.And as Sthephen pointed out, pinging a web server is absolutely no way to determin if it’s up and running. Of course, there’s always the possibility of a problem with the DNS server used at a special location, but AFAIK there’s little IBM can do about that.

–E<:|

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Subject: whatever it was, it’s up now

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Subject: Whats up with lotus.com? DNSReport shows all of its nameservers are down.

www-10.lotus.com is LDD, and that’s fine (I’m posting to it; it has been down from time to time over the last weeks…)www.lotus.com appears to be fine (from a browser).

What’s lotus-00.lotus.com?

As was said, testing with a browser is a better test. Many firewalls treat pings as hostile intrusion attempts and may even lock your IP address out for x minutes. (Our corporate one does! :slight_smile:

Lee Sweet