Re: [cobalt-users] Apache not responding

[Jens Kristian Søgaard <jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > You can ping a site in the sense that you can ping the name. The ping
client
> > can ofcourse resolve names. You're just being a hairsplitter now.

> Yes and no.  You can ping a URL that consists of merely a
> hostname.domainname combination, and if you do, you can say you're
> pinging a site, but in fact you're still pinging the IP# the
> hostname.domainname resolves to.  If if your DNS or your hosts file is
> wrong, that could be the problem.  That's why I made the comment I did.

Yes, sure ofcourse. If the name resolves to a wrong ip, you'll ofcourse go
check the wrong ip.

DNS management is the one thing that seems to be giving most of the Cobalt
RaQ customers a hard time. And not only at startup - but also several times
later in their business lives as hosting providers. I do not understand, why
they do not outsource DNS issues to their ISP or a company like yours (or
ours). Much downtime can be avoided that way.

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Jens Kristian Søgaard, Mermaid Consulting I/S,
jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
http://www.mermaidconsulting.com/