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Old Aug 16, 2004 | 7:18 am
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venk
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DNS Problem

There is a problem that needs to be fixed in the DNS and/or in the loadbalancer if that is what they are using.

Flyertalk.com resolves to two IP addresses: 64.78.185.92 and 64.78.185.85.

The server corresponding to the second IP address is dead or not accepting connections on that IP address.

If we use flyertalk.com in the URL, as long as it resolves to the first IP address, it works fine but somewhere in the middle it switches to the other IP address (I don't know if this is a DNS record problem or they are using a load balancer that is doing IP redirection to balance load to the non-functional IP address) and you start getting the connection error/refused error.

You can use the first IP address instead of www.flyertalk.com and the whole site works fine. But they should really fix this. Getting the other IP address working will solve the problem but it will repeat this problem whenever one of them goes down so they need a more robust solution.

If anyone knows how to get this to the attention of the admin via e-mail, please do so.
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