From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 19 09:25:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99CCD16A4CE for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 09:25:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.nativenerds.com (host-70-0-111-24.midco.net [24.111.0.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6960843D79 for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 09:25:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from estover@nativenerds.com) Received: from [192.168.1.89] (host-133-35-230-24.midco.net [24.230.35.133]) j4J9dxxD030720; Thu, 19 May 2005 03:40:00 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from estover@nativenerds.com) Message-ID: <428C5C02.4020603@nativenerds.com> Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 03:27:30 -0600 From: Ed Stover Organization: Native Nerds User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050503) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gavin R. Putland" References: <200505181520.23507.brainiac@westnet.com.au> <200505181633.11251.gavp@westnet.com.au> <20050518014034.U62516@mail.goinet.com> <200505182038.33536.gavp@westnet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200505182038.33536.gavp@westnet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on mail.nativenerds.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Main web site... & egg on my face X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: estover@nativenerds.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 09:25:48 -0000 Gavin R. Putland wrote: > Ahem... > > On Wed, 18 May 2005 04:41 pm, Tony Shadwick wrote: > >>Just out of curiousity... >> >>cat /etc/resolv.conf > > > That gives the local primary and secondary nameservers of > my ISP, as I believe it should. The problem was not likely > to be in my machine because I have done a few OS installs > in recent days, whereas www.freebsd.org and the underlying > releng pages, as seen by me, are several months old. > > I was familiar with resolv.conf, but not the following: > > >>nslookup www.freebsd.org > > > That gives: > > Server: 203.21.20.20 > Address: 203.21.20.20#53 > > Non-authoritative answer: > Name: www.freebsd.org > Address: 216.136.204.117 > > The "Server" is my ISP's primary nameserver. I don't know > the significance of the #53, but I can report that it has > been consistent for a couple of hours. When I load > 216.136.204.117 into a browser, I get the UP-TO-DATE > FreeBSD home page. > > That suggested to me that my ISP uses a proxy which can be > bypassed by typing the real IP address instead of the > mnemonic version thereof. So I got on a bus, went to an > internet cafe and, having established that the cafe didn't > use the same ISP, typed in www.freebsd.org... and got the > up-to-date version. > > So I'll take up the matter with my ISP. (Or perhaps I > should change to internode.on.net, whose servers apparently > run FreeBSD.) > > >>:) > > > Indeed. > > With thanks (and apologies, if amusement is outweighed by > annoyance). > > Gavin R. Putland. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I think all of this maybe some scandalous covert government operation to make people think FreeBSD is not in development any more. ;)