What is a DNS error?

[Elspeth]

Hi. I have been trying to reach a certain website for almost a week and have not been able to get to it. (I keep getting "Server Not Found")

I finally emailed the administrator at the site and got the following error message in return:



Mail Delivery Subsystem mailer-daemon@googlemail.com

4:51 AM (15 hours ago)

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.

Delivery to the following recipient has been delayed:

admins@XXXX.com

Message will be retried for 2 more day(s)

Technical details of temporary failure:
DNS Error: DNS server returned general failure


Anyone know what is going on ?

[Rockntractor]

DNS Domain Name System, the website is off line or your bookmark has the wrong IP associated with the domain name

[Rockntractor]

Go here and check your computer.
http://www.mcafee.com/dnscheck

[Elspeth]

Go here and check your computer.
http://www.mcafee.com/dnscheck

It tells me I'm ok.

So maybe the site is offline?

[Rockntractor]

It tells me I'm ok.

So maybe the site is offline?

Okay, good deal just making sure.
They probably are having problems and will be back soon.

[Elspeth]

Okay, good deal just making sure.
They probably are having problems and will be back soon.

Thank you so much!

I appreciate the help. :)