DNS confusion

[William Park]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 02:17:51PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> hey everyone,
> 
> I'm hoping someone will have some ideas as to what I did wrong...
> 
> www.backdirt.net is hosted on 66.98.212.88
> www.geekent.com is hosted on 205.207.28.66
> 
> These machines are not at all related. When I access http://geekent.com
> all is as it should be. But when I try to access http://www.geekent.com I
> get the current web site of www.backdirt.net (it's not even the old
> contents from where backdirt.net used to be hosted). The part that I find
> especially confusing is that backdirt.net isn't even the first item in the
> Apache config file on 205.207.28.66. It's the SECOND item (the first item
> is www.appearance-reality.com which is working fine).
> 
> I must have done something wrong? Or did my ISP do something wrong? I'm so
> confused!

Hint:
    host www.geekent.com
    dig geekent.com
    ping www.geekent.com

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