DNS oversight equals out of date website

05.01.07 Posted in Websites by Barry

I received two gratis tick­ets to the Bet­ter Homes 2007 exhi­bi­tion, and buoyed by the fact that Eddie Hobbs might be there, I tapped in the URL for some more info, this is what I got:

Bet­ter Homes 2006  — bet​ter​homes​.ie

Better Homes 2006

I thought this was a lit­tle silly, to have lots of promo for the event, but an out of date web­site, I checked the flyer again, and noted it was www​.bet​ter​homes​.ie , but that shouldn’t make a dif­fer­ence, should it ? It did.

Bet­ter Homes 2007 — www​.bet​ter​homes​.ie

Better Homes 2007

Thats the cor­rect site, but I’m still sur­prised there are two dif­fer­ent loca­tions for the same site, this can eas­ily be fixed with a sim­ple DNS update.

Cor­rect DNS Settings

Name TTL Class Type Data

bet​ter​homes​.ie 86400 IN A 82.195.155.153

*.bet​ter​homes​.ie 86400 IN A 82.195.155.153

This would direct every­thing (*) .bet​ter​homes​.ie to the cor­rect location.

After a lit­tle more dig­ging, it appears the two web­sites are sit­ting with dif­fer­ent host­ing providers.

bet​ter​homes​.ie DNS

2006 DNS

www​.bet​ter​homes​.ie DNS

2007 DNS

What this looks like is the domain is reg­is­tered through H365, but the site has moved to Adnet​.ie and some­one has for­got to update all the DNS settings.

If you go to the trou­ble of organ­is­ing an event, and pro­mot­ing it, make sure the web­site is acces­si­ble to all users, espe­cially those like me who rarely bother pre­fix­ing domains with WWW DOT.

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  • Unfortunately a LOT of sites suffer from this problem and worse. In some cases the ISPs don't even create A records for domain.tld, so people can't reach the site without the "www" which is a bit mad. I know there is an old RFC that some of them use as an excuse, but it still costs people.
    Another issue is shadow dns zones, which are leftover when domains are moved from one provider to another.
    It makes it all quite messy :)

    Michele
  • admin
    Hi Conor,

    If you'd like to drop me a quick email with some details. I'd be happy to give you some advice.

    barryhand(at) gmail(dot) com
  • Hi Barry

    I came across your comments regarding the Betterhomes website whilst doing a search, and thank you firstly for bringing the problem with my website to my attention. I am not an expert when it comes to the internet and pay professionals to do same for me, however it seems to be a bit of a minefield trying to find the right person for the job. Anyway I am currently in the market for a talented web designer for two major projects and was wondering if you knew of anybody that maybe interested ?
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