Main web site... & egg on my face
Gavin R. Putland
gavp at westnet.com.au
Wed May 18 03:38:50 PDT 2005
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.
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