Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:50:09 +0200 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't connecto to www.freebsd.org Message-ID: <200709272150.10538.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <ADA47EFE15ACA74E8B702B6EF90D91390A1691B8@UTDEVS08.campus.ad.utdallas.edu> References: <1bd550a00709271122n4ffd891ckbee5f84381cc1b64@mail.gmail.com> <ADA47EFE15ACA74E8B702B6EF90D91390A1691B8@UTDEVS08.campus.ad.utdallas.edu>
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On Thursday 27 September 2007 21:38:02 Schmehl, Paul L wrote: > > I write this mail cause from 15 days ago (more or less) I can't connect > > to www.freebsd.org typing the address on Firefox. Pings are resolved and > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > DNS has nothing to do with pings. Sure it does. ping <hostname> resolves address via DNS. Which is why I'm more thinking of bogus HTTP_PROXY (which fetch(1) would show) or an ISP forced transparent proxy which uses a stale DNS record. 15 days ago the website outage and sparked a load of me too mails on this list. I haven't checked if DNS was updated at the time, but it makes sense. -- Mel
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