From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 27 19:50:14 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2597F16A419 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:50:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBCB213C458 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:50:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 008971CDEE for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:50:12 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:50:09 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <1bd550a00709271122n4ffd891ckbee5f84381cc1b64@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200709272150.10538.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Subject: Re: Can't connecto to www.freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:50:14 -0000 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 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