skynews.com resolves to my localhost ip

[richcleverley]

Hi,

Don't know why this should happen, but I was wanting to go to skynews.com yesterday and ended up with the splash screen for my local apache webserver.

When I ping skynews.com I get a response from 127.0.0.1.

I am on windowsxp and apache is not running always(just a test server). I have looked in hosts and nothing there and also in my apache conf file but can't find any trace of the domain on my machine.

Any ideas?

Richard

 

[Serbtastic]

What happens when you run this command:

nslookup skynews.com

 

[Wullie]

The nameservers for skynews.com are returning 127.0.0.1, this is not an issue with your machine.

Hope this helps

Wullie

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[SimonDavies]

skynews.com isn't actually the Sky News website. Try using

http://www.sky.com/skynews/home

instead.

 

[NetIntruder]

Wullie nailed it.

Domain Name: SKYNEWS.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL:

http://www.networksolutions.com

Name Server: JXNDNS02.SKYTEL.COM
Name Server: JXNDNS01.SKYTEL.COM
Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
Updated Date: 20-may-2005
Creation Date: 21-jun-1996
Expiration Date: 20-jun-2006


The name servers are returning the loopback address as the domain address.

~Intruder~
CEH, MCSA/MCSE 2000/2003

"The Less You Do, The Less Can Go Wrong"

 

[richcleverley]

Thanks Simon,

I realised that skynews.com wasn't the sky news webpage. Just thought it was weird that it was resolving to the loopback.

Richard