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April 14, 2016
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help.adobe.com’s server DNS address could not be found

  • April 14, 2016
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When trying to access help in Framemaker 12 I keep getting this message

help.adobe.com’s server DNS address could not be found

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    Participating Frequently
    April 15, 2016

    Your DNS server is not converting the hostname help.adobe.com into an IP address (for example 23.205.220.88).

    You can check this by opening a command prompt, and typing this command:

    nslookup help.adobe.com

    You should get output similar to this:

    > nslookup help.adobe.com
    Server:  dns.mydomain.com
    Address:  12.34.56.78
    
    Non-authoritative answer:
    Name:    a630.b.akamai.net
    Addresses:  23.205.220.88
              23.205.220.105
    Aliases:  help.adobe.com
              help.wip4.adobe.com
              help.adobe.com.edgesuite.net
              help.adobe.com.edgesuite.net.globalredir.akadns.net

    I'd expect you're instead seeing an error, perhaps something like this:

    > nslookup help.adobe.com
    Server:  dns.mydomain.com
    Address:  12.34.56.78
    
    *** dns.mydomain.com can't find help.adobe.com: Non-existent domain

    You might also verify that a different DNS server can successfully resolve the address. For example, using Google's server at 8.8.8.8:

    > nslookup help.adobe.com 8.8.8.8
    Server:  google-public-dns-a.google.com
    Address:  8.8.8.8
    
    Non-authoritative answer:
    Name:    a630.b.akamai.net
    Addresses:  23.205.220.88
              23.205.220.105
    Aliases:  help.adobe.com
              help.wip4.adobe.com
              help.adobe.com.edgesuite.net
              help.adobe.com.edgesuite.net.globalredir.akadns.net

    Refer this issue to your sysadmin and/or ISP.

    If necessary, change which DNS server you are using. A web search will tell you how to do this.

    Jeff_Coatsworth
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    April 14, 2016

    I’m not getting that effect on my copy – try having a look at it in your browser & see if you’re still getting it