http://www.freebsd.org site unreachable

[Lowell Gilbert]

Chad Perrin <perrin at apotheon.com> writes:

> Also . . . portaudit fails because it cannot connect to freebsd.org, so
> it's more than just the website, though the @freebsd.org mailing lists
> still seem to work (obviously).

Portaudit uses http to fetch the XML document, so you're not seeing
anything different from the website failure.

Also, mail (unsurprisingly) is handled by a machine that is *not* the
main webserver address.