Originally Posted by Arrogant-One
I server and hosts for OzChess are in the USA. I think the problem, and have been told that the problem, is associated with the site actually being
http://ozchess.com.au
When I was experiencing problems last night I tried both with and without the www and neither was resolving to an address. The problem could be as localised as the DNS settings on the individual which are generally defined by the ISP, especially if the ISP uses DHCP. It would be interesting to try and correlate people experiencing the problem and their ISP. I'm Exetel and would expect anyone on this ISP to have been experiencing problems at the same time as I was.
Originally Posted by Arrogant-One
One user who could not log on using the www, tried the non www and has been able to gain access problem free since then. Nevertheless, the registered domain name is www, and maybe its time for me to call the server (likely Monday at the earliest as my weekends get booked up pretty fast) and I'll see if this can be cleared up.
This is an incomplete analysis of the problem for a couple of reasons. Without going into all the possible scenarios I'll just reiterate, the problem I was having last night was resolving the domain both with and without the www. prefix. It seems to be a problem with the Exetel DNS server but could possibly have been affecting other servers out there. I don't know the cause and it could even be an Exetel problem however I haven't had problems with other sites and I have seen intermittent problems with this site on different days so I suspect the root cause originates from vbskinworks. However, with the hosts file fix I don't expect and future problems unless someone changes an IP address on me.