Main web site... & egg on my face

[Ed Stover]

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.
> 
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I think all of this maybe some scandalous covert government operation to
make people think FreeBSD is not in development any more. ;)