OT: www.linux.org

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2005-10-20 14:34, taharka pulled out a trusty #2 pencil and 
scribbled:

> 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.
>
What happens if you click on this link:  http://198.182.196.56/

(or just copy/paste or type it in) ?

-- 
Fritz Whittington -- TI Alum -- http://www.tialumni.org
"Force without wisdom falls of its own weight." --Horace, Odes

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