Re: [LUG] DNS problems

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Hewson wrote:
> I've set up a wiki on www.seedwiki.com just to see whether a group I help with
> can use such a facility.   The trouble is, one of our members can't access it
> because her local cache DNS can't find an entry. 

Weird - seedwiki.com looks okay, I wouldn't use those SOA values
myself but....

>  We've contacted the
> relevant administrators, but I wondered if there was a way of obtaining the
> actual number and entering that in the browser instead in the meantime?

Just edit the local host file and put www.seedwiki.com in. You
usually need name, not just IP, as recent http protocol versions
send the name to support hosting multiple sites on one IP.

Yes even Windows has a host file.

Do remember to take it out again after sorting the DNS.

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