Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 14:38:02 +1000 (EST) From: robert@chalmers.com.au (Robert Chalmers) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (bsd) Subject: somethings not right here. Need Help please Message-ID: <m0vJuJu-0002I6C@nanguo.chalmers.com.au>
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Hello folks. I need some help here I think. Something is not right, and I can't pin it down. I'll try and explain it. Firstly, let me say that "most" people have no problems connecting to my site. I know it's slow, but not that bad. I get on avereage between 1.5Kbps and 2.5Kbps throughput across my link. Either side of the link. The DNS is configured correctly, and passed all sanity checks. I have some some 20 years in the computer industry, and like to think I know what I am doing. This one has me foxed. Maybe it isn't even my site! BUT.... here's the tricky thing. You know how yahoo.com will do a sanity check on your server when you have filled in the "add url" page, and you click on "submit" ? ( if you don't, no point in reading further I guess ) If your site passes this check, the url is added to their db. If something goes wrong, it tells you as best it can, and fails to add your url to the db. well, I fill in the page and click on submit. If I leave the address in the submit page as www.chalmers.com.au, which is the FreeBSD server I have just recently got running, _yahoo wont complete_. The FreeBSD server is called ruby.chalmers.com.au, and www is a CNAME pointing to that server in the DNS. yahoo.com returns a "timeout" error. Even if I change the url to read ruby.chalmers.com.au, same thing. ok, next step. I change the address in the "submit url" page to show nanguo.chalmers.com.au, which is the original server I used for www, a SCO, note I call it "nanguo.chalmers.com.au", not www.chalmers.com.au, I click on the submit url button, and instantly it is accepted! Now, I've had lots of people suggest things to me. Most of which I'm told often anyway. But no one seems to be able to tell me why yahoo can't pass a sanity check to the FreeBSD server, and can to the SCO. Further to this, I have not had this problem with ANY other search engine? And I have only had one other complaint from a person telling me my site would only 'time out' when they connected. In that case, _they_ did not have their DNS configured correctly. So... has anyone experienced this sort of thing before? with yahoo? with anything? or anyone? Is there a guru out there who understands the mysteries of life, the universe and everything.... ta for any help, tanks bob -- The China House Sheng Huo Jiu Shi Dou Zheng robert@chalmers.com.au for Whirled Peas http://www.chalmers.com.au Location: Whitsunday Web Works. 21'7" S, 149'14" E.
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