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. > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > I think all of this maybe some scandalous covert government operation to make people think FreeBSD is not in development any more. ;) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
