Strange external website popping up instead of my own site.

Hi all,
Every now and then, in stead of the webpage on my webserver a external page is displayed instead. It is always the same page being displayed and needless to say perhaps: it contains adult material.
It seems that whenever my macbook can for some reason not quickly reach my server, that I get this page. My SLS is called iserve.private and runs only on my in-house network. On the macbook, the DNS server specified is the local server (172.16.0.4), the second one specified is an external dns from the provider.
anybody known whats wrong? Thanks.
Message was edited by: Buismac

I'd not expect an ISP to be serving adult content on a DNS intercept page.
Given you have a DNS server, your DNS server should be your source of DNS translations for your network. Remove that second reference from your client; let your DNS server deal with asking other servers, and you can go completely around the ISP DNS servers. (This assumes your DNS server is available and operational full-time.)
A response from LAN DNS server should be substantially quicker than a response from a remote DNS server, when you're operating on a typical residential ISP connection.
This smells of some sort of a hack; an IP routing issue or attack, a DNS server compromise, a web server compromise, or similar.
Possibly a problem with the client, too. Do other boxes on the LAN show this same behavior?
Is any part of your network externally accessible?
Are you running your server as a network gateway?

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