Today, I just tried to visit steemit.com site as usual, but I found that I can't access it normally.
I got following response when I visited https://steemit.com in browser:
Oh, there seems something wrong about steemit.com:(
I tried again after a nap, and got:
I discussed it with my friends at QQ group.
Some of them said that steemit.com works normally, but others can't work with it.
So I try to finger out what happen?
- First I ping the domain of steemit.com at the command prompt:
As you can see, the ping worked fine, and the IP address is 167.114.34.68
- When I tried to use the IP address directly at browser, I got the same error as I access it with the domain.
But why some of my friends can worked with the site?
- I try to finger it out use EzDig tool:
Here are results:
; <<>> EzDig 3.0 <<>> @198.153.194.1 steemit.com A
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24734
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY:1, ANSWER:4, AUTHORITY:2, ADDITIONAL:1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
steemit.com IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
steemit.com 1800 IN A 167.114.34.68
steemit.com 1800 IN A 167.114.34.59
steemit.com 1800 IN A 167.114.34.89
steemit.com 1800 IN A 167.114.34.81
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
steemit.com 3600 IN NS ns38.domaincontrol.com
steemit.com 3600 IN NS ns37.domaincontrol.com
As you can see there are FOUR addresses for A record.
- I tried to use the IP address directly at browser https://167.114.34.59
It works fine for me!
Then I tested those IPs with a server which located at softlayer DC.
- For 167.114.34.68
wget https://167.114.34.68 --no-check-certificate
--2016-07-31 06:57:50-- https://167.114.34.68/
Connecting to 167.114.34.68:443... connected.
WARNING: certificate common name “steemit.com” doesn't match requested host name “167.114.34.68”.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 502 Bad Gateway
2016-07-31 06:57:51 ERROR 502: Bad Gateway.
- For 167.114.34.59
wget https://167.114.34.59 --no-check-certificate
--2016-07-31 06:57:35-- https://167.114.34.59/
Connecting to 167.114.34.59:443... connected.
WARNING: certificate common name “steemit.com” doesn't match requested host name “167.114.34.59”.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 272853 (266K) [text/html]
Saving to: “index.html”
100%[===================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 272,853 1.16M/s in 0.2s
2016-07-31 06:57:36 (1.16 MB/s) - “index.html” saved [272853/272853]
- And I tested PTR of 167.114.34.68
; <<>> EzDig 3.0 <<>> @208.67.222.222 68.34.114.167.in-addr.arpa PTR
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24734
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY:1, ANSWER:1, AUTHORITY:0, ADDITIONAL:1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
68.34.114.167.in-addr.arpa IN PTR
;; ANSWER SECTION:
68.34.114.167.in-addr.arpa 86400 IN PTR node003.steem.house
The results:
There is something wrong with node003(167.114.34.68)
Hope this issue be fixed ASAP.