GoDaddy DNS Timeouts

Wim (Leuven templates) has identified a DNS lookup timeout on my website for both my Saratoga website (Space Weather) and my Leuven website (Sun/Moon/Earth ==> Space Information). When the ‘http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/text/3-day-forecast.txt’ data is fetched, the GoDaddy DNS server returns a ‘name lookup timed out’ error message. Sometimes it succeeds but mostly it fails. There’s a 5 second wait so that would be way more than enough time to fetch the data.

We’re trying to get a list of GoDaddy websites that succeed or fail on this lookup.

He has created a stand-alone script which users can ftp to their website and run.

The goal is to find one or more GoDaddy sites where the time-outs do not occur and give these sites to GoDaddy tech support so they can determine what the problem is and a fix. I’ve had four conversations with them over a four hour period in the last several days. They don’t seem to have a clue as to what would cause this failure.

You can find the topic and the script, along with installation notes here: http://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=32322.0

Do please check your website and post the website link and the results to that message thread.

Thanks!

Mort