loopback when pinging freepgs.com

[local4ener]

Something interesting that I noticed.  I was unable to access my website earlier today.  I pinged freepgs.com and did not recieve any replies.  Later on I pinged it again and received replies from 127.0.0.1 aka localhost.  I checked my hosts file and its unaltered.  Any ideas of why this is happening?

[RickFriedman]

Something interesting that I noticed.  I was unable to access my website earlier today.  I pinged freepgs.com and did not recieve any replies.  Later on I pinged it again and received replies from 127.0.0.1 aka localhost.  I checked my hosts file and its unaltered.  Any ideas of why this is happening?

Interesting. When I do a "dig freepgs.com", I get the following:

; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> freepgs.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 5284
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;freepgs.com.                   IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
freepgs.com.            3445    IN      A       127.0.0.1

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
freepgs.com.            3445    IN      NS      ns3.secureserver.net.
freepgs.com.            3445    IN      NS      ns4.secureserver.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns3.secureserver.net.   705     IN      A       64.202.165.10
ns4.secureserver.net.   705     IN      A       64.202.167.92

;; Query time: 28 msec
;; SERVER: 141.155.0.68#53(141.155.0.68)
;; WHEN: Sat Dec 10 09:15:36 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 129

also showing an IP of 127.0.0.1

Rick

[admin]

Yes, this was done to keep traffic off of the server so the datacenter would plug us back in (before bandwidth limits could be implemented)

Currently, only domain-based accounts will resolve.

Thank you,
FreePgs.com Admin

[Ben]

I thought it would be appropriate to try and keep all talk on this topic together, so this topic is locked.

http://newsys.freepgs.com/smf/index.php?topic=610.0