OT: www.linux.org

[taharka]

Fritz Whittington wrote:

> On or about 2005-10-19 17:46, jludwig pulled out a trusty #2 pencil 
> and scribbled:
>
>> On Wednesday 19 October 2005 15:42, taharka wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Any one here know whats up with their site? There has been no access 
>>> for
>>> the past couple of days, but the site responds to pings :-(
>>>
>>> taharka
>>>
>>> Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I had issues with some sites a while ago. It turned out to be a 
>> poisoned DNS server lookup table.
>>
>> Oops just tired it --- putting in linux.org failed, but 
>> http://www.linux.org did not!!!
>>  
>>
> Yes, note the different IPs returned by pinging linux.org and 
> www.linux.org.  A lot of people just don't type the "www" part, 
> because if you just type the "linux.org" part and it's not found, then 
> the browser automatically prepends "www." and trys again.  Also, many 
> sites have the "www.abc.xyz" in DNS point to the same server as 
> "abc.xyz".  However, in this case, linux.org returns a valid IP 
> address, there just isn't a web server there, so nothing happens...
>
Well, I still can't get to the site, no matter what address I use :-(

taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.