On Aug 22, 5:59 pm, Nick Dangr <oggie.ben.dog...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm working on a simple file sharing website for my company. We want
> all of our stores to be able to access the website, but only those
> stores.
>
> Each store uses a dynamic domain name (kind of like dyndns.org but a
> commercial one, which pegs its dns name down to for example:
>
> store1.commercialdns.com
> store2.commercialdns.com
>
> etc...
>
> Long and short of it, I configured the site initially (earlier in the
> day) that it can be accessed by domains I listed before
> (store1.commercialdns.com etc...). It worked. They could get in
> fine, I was able to look around and everything worked.
>
> Well, I'm working on the thing now and for whatever reason it seems
> the dns resolution isn't happening from the server. If I plug in a
> store's IP address, bang zap they can get into the site. If I use
> domain based security, no go. I went so far as to even hard code the
> DNS on the server just in case it wasn't resolving. Still no dice. I
> keep getting 403 errors unless I use the IP instead of the DNS info.
>
> I attempted a traceroute to the dynamic domain names and verified it
> makes it to each store.
>
> Can anyone think of any reason this would've worked earlier in the day
> and is not working now?
>
> I'm a little baffled. Event logs and WWW logs are not enlightening.

On Aug 26, 4:43 am, David Wang <w3.4...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 22, 5:59 pm, Nick Dangr <oggie.ben.dog...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I'm working on a simple file sharing website for my company. We want
> > all of our stores to be able to access the website, but only those
> > stores.
>
> > Each store uses a dynamic domain name (kind of like dyndns.org but a
> > commercial one, which pegs its dns name down to for example:
>
> > store1.commercialdns.com
> > store2.commercialdns.com
>
> > etc...
>
> > Long and short of it, I configured the site initially (earlier in the
> > day) that it can be accessed by domains I listed before
> > (store1.commercialdns.com etc...). It worked. They could get in
> > fine, I was able to look around and everything worked.
>
> > Well, I'm working on the thing now and for whatever reason it seems
> > the dns resolution isn't happening from the server. If I plug in a
> > store's IP address, bang zap they can get into the site. If I use
> > domain based security, no go. I went so far as to even hard code the
> > DNS on the server just in case it wasn't resolving. Still no dice. I
> > keep getting 403 errors unless I use the IP instead of the DNS info.
>
> > I attempted a traceroute to the dynamic domain names and verified it
> > makes it to each store.
>
> > Can anyone think of any reason this would've worked earlier in the day
> > and is not working now?
>
> > I'm a little baffled. Event logs and WWW logs are not enlightening.
>
> What protocol are you using to access the "simple websharing website"?
> Is it plain HTTP, WebDAV, or some other proprietary protocol?
>
> Because assuming networking can connect between the client and store
> based on DNS name, the next thing to check is the protocol used to
> communicate and then the code implementing that protocol and finally
> any logs from that code to troubleshoot.
>
> //Davidhttp://w3-4u.blogspot.comhttp://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> //