# Occasional DNS issue?

**URL:** <https://forums.screenly.io/t/occasional-dns-issue/587>\
**Category:** Anthias\
**Created:** [July 8, 2021, 8:37pm UTC](https://forums.screenly.io/t/occasional-dns-issue/587 "2021-07-08T20:37:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![sgenevish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@sgenevish](https://forums.screenly.io/u/sgenevish)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2021, 8:37pm UTC](https://forums.screenly.io/t/occasional-dns-issue/587/1 "2021-07-08T20:37:27Z")

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My Screenly display is running a basic html page, which is set to refresh every 60 seconds (with a meta tag in the header). Generally this works fine, but occasionally I come back to it and it has an error, “Error resolving ^amywebsite.domain.com^a: Temporary failure in name resolution.” The “^a” is a single character, as described here: [string - What is this character ( Â ) and how do I remove it with PHP? - Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7186550/what-is-this-character-%C3%82-and-how-do-i-remove-it-with-php)

Not sure if those weird characters are indicative of the problem, or just a result of the error displaying weirdly. I have added the site URL in the hosts file, so there should not be a DNS issue.