http:///?%20?!?!?!

[homer15]

hey everyone,

my cousin is trying to set up her own website. i gave her a few pointers on where to get the domain and some good hosts. she filled out all the info and submitted it. she didn't quite set up the nameservers right, so i resubmitted those about 3 days ago. now when i type in her address of www.mycousinssite.com it directs me to http:///?%20mycousinssite.com. does anyone have any idea why this would be doing it? i'm guessing somewhere along the way my cousin might've accidentally put a space in an inaproprate place, but i don't know where. any help is appreciated.

[mairving]

%20 does indicate a space. It couldn't be done at the registar level since a space is not allowed in a domain name. More than likely the host made an incorrect entry into the DNS record. Do a nslookup or a dig on the domain name.

[homer15]

thanks mairving.
i have the dig report, but what do i look at?

[mairving]

Just look for the A records and see what name they have in listed.

[homer15]

ok, this is what my report looks like:

12/10/03 12:07:31 dig mycousinssite.com @ ns3.myhost.com Dig mycousinssite.com@ns4.myhost.com (###.###.###.###) ... Authoritative Answer Recursive queries supported by this server Query for mycousinssite.com type=255 class=1 mycousinssite.com MX (Mail Exchanger) Priority: 0 mycousinssite.com mycousinssite.com SOA (Zone of Authority) Primary NS: ns3.myhost.com Responsible person: someguy@myhost.com serial:2003120300 refresh:28800s (8 hours) retry:7200s (2 hours) expire:3600000s (410 days) minimum-ttl:86400s (24 hours) mycousinssite.com NS (Nameserver) ns4.myhost.com mycousinssite.com NS (Nameserver) ns5.myhost.com mycousinssite.com NS (Nameserver) ns3.myhost.com mycousinssite.com A (Address) ###.###.###.### mycousinssite.com A (Address) ###.###.###.### ns3.myhost.com A (Address) ###.###.###.### ns4.myhost.com A (Address) ###.###.###.### ns5.myhost.com A (Address) ###.###.###.###

which records are you referring to, the one's with the A in the middle, right?

[mairving]

Nothing looks wrong there with the A records though you edited them for privacy.

I would check with the host since it is probably on their end.

[homer15]

yea, i edited them, but i used word for word replacement, so even though the word itself is different, the information is still basically the same.