On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 08:17 -0700, Bill Landry wrote: > > dig sought.rules.yerp.org > > finds no "A" record. Although yerp.org has an "A" record, the site > cannot be access via browser, at least not from here...
Yeah, there was another downtime, obviously fixed since. However, just to clarify on the debugging technique -- as I mentioned the other day in this thread, you're dig'ing up the wrong name. sought.rules.yerp.org is *NOT* supposed to have either an A nor a TXT record. Only with the reversed SA version prepended it does have any record at all -- a TXT record encoding the latest channel version. $ host -t TXT 5.2.3.sought.rules.yerp.org 5.2.3.sought.rules.yerp.org descriptive text "320769313" The actual http mirror is not necessarily in the same domain, and usually *not* the channel name (your dig above). The mirrors are cached in the MIRRORED.BY file, and can be checked fresh with a DNS lookup: $ host -t TXT mirrors.sought.rules.yerp.org Bottom line: Please stop digging the channel. :) guenther -- char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu...@ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4"; main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1: (c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}