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Originally Posted by ddfrench
Here's something I don't follow. If domain A has the wrong server IP address in its DNS record, a request for any page on domain A will generate a response along the lines of "domain not found". If domain A does not exist on the server, it will not return a page from domain B (Alan's domain which is on the server).
If the only response is an error message, I don't see how the DNS errors would cause Alan's problems with Google.
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Resources are accessed via the IP Address; that IP Address identifies a
hostserver, which in turn contains the data belonging to, in this case, a particular Domain Name.
If a Name Server has the wrong IP Address for a Domain Name, and that IP Address points to a hostserver that actually exists, then that server will contain, at the least, in this case, a default page, aka index or home page. Therefore, absent any additional parameters which specify a data file other than the default, any request made to that IP Address will return that page,
not a 404 Error.
See the analogy with a telephone directory at
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