Hello.. some customers are complaining, that they cant reach www.exite.com... hmmm a nslookup shows... $ dig @ns1.coastline.com www.exite.com. ; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> @ns1.coastline.com www.exite.com. ; (1 server found) ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; Ques: 1, Ans: 1, Auth: 2, Addit: 2 ;; QUESTIONS: ;; www.exite.com, type = A, class = IN ;; ANSWERS: www.exite.com. 86400 A 192.168.254.254 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ;; AUTHORITY RECORDS: exite.com. 86400 NS ns1.coastline.com. exite.com. 86400 NS ns2.coastline.com. ;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS: ns1.coastline.com. 86400 A 205.180.85.126 ns2.coastline.com. 86400 A 205.180.85.125 ;; Total query time: 406 msec ;; FROM: hq.seicom.net to SERVER: ns1.coastline.com 205.180.85.126 ;; WHEN: Fri Jan 30 13:48:03 1998 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 31 rcvd: 134 hmmmm well this ip adress is never reachable :-) was this dns-server hacked ? Winfried