502 Proxy error on Suggest URL

PROXY problem

Regional: North America: United States: Florida: Localities: N

ERROR:

Proxy Error
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request GET /cgi-bin/add.cgi.

Reason: DNS lookup failure for: core.dmoz.aol.com

Hi,

I have never tried to submit a site to dmoz before. After finding the category I think is most appropriate for my site, I click on Suggest URL and get the following error -

Proxy Error

The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request GET /cgi-bin/add.cgi.

Reason: DNS lookup failure for: core.dmoz.aol.com

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks,

Chan

It's been reported to AOL's systems engineers. AOL owns us and runs our servers.

I suggest that you try again in a few days, by when we hope it will have been fixed.

502 proxy error when submitting to DMOZ

Every time I try to submit my site to the corresponding category I get the 502 proxy error. This means I do not have access, so how I am suppose to submit? The same error is also displayed when I click on "become an editor". Help anyone?

There's no need for several threads all reporting the same problem. I've merged them.

Also, there have been a flood of abuse reports, also reporting the problem. Please don't send any more; it won't speed up resolution and merely consumes already stretched resources.

Just in case it helps any moderators to pass this on to sys admins or techie guys, after looking further into it to make sure it is nothing to do with my OS or browser, i have tried it on two different computers, one vista the other NT and with IE7, 8, Firefox and chrome. All give the same result.

I used networking tools to look up core.dmoz.aol.com (which is what is presumably in the add-cgi script that is causing this to fail).

By querying any of AOL's nameservers I get an authoritative answer back that core.dmoz.aol.com does not exist -

03/28/10 15:13:02 dig core.dmoz.aol.com @ 64.12.51.132
Dig core.dmoz.aol.com@64.12.51.132 ...
Authoritative Answer
Authoritative answer: Host doesn't exist
Query for core.dmoz.aol.com type=255 class=1
dmoz.aol.com SOA (Zone of Authority)
Primary NS: dns-01.ns.aol.com
Responsible person: hostmaster@aol.net
serial:2010085005
refresh:1800s (30 minutes)
retry:300s (5 minutes)
expire:604800s (7 days)
minimum-ttl:600s (10 minutes)

Hope this helps soemone from dmoz to find the problem

Many thanks,

Chan

Sit tight. Dmoz is aware of this. Just try it some other day.

Hello, I am having the same problem for 3 days now..
I try to add my site in http://www.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/add.cgi?where=World/Română/Societate/Lege/Servicii/Notari, and the error I get when trying to submit is:

The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request GET /cgi-bin/add.cgi.
Reason: DNS lookup failure for: core.dmoz.aol.com

Please fix this

Many thanks to the techie guys from dmoz or aol for fixing the problem.

Chan

Are you using an Internet security program such as McAfee? If so, disable because those programs commonly cause problems because they proxy all internet traffic, so when the program screws up you cant to anything online. But if your only getting the error with some pages and some other ones work fine then you might be having DNS problems which are beyond your control and you have to wait until the network is fixed by your ISP. Also if your on a router/home network then reset the router and modem and see if that helps at all. good luck


Thanks,
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It was dmoz.org having internal DNS problems - nothing to do with the user at all.