DNS (Re: Distrowatch.org is down ???

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> even
> dig @85.68.0.7 google.com
> gives me a timeout.

Works fine here...

> maybe they restrict access ?

Yeah, maybe my ISP only allow his own customers to use this DNS... to
keep the load on the their server under control maybe ??

> dig @ns1.mydyndns.org distrowatch.com

That returned 66.180.174.35 which worked. BUt it's strange ! This is
a .com address, whereas I have always used normally .org !
That said, even if I type the .com URL, it doesn't work either, I still
have to type the IP by hand... not very practical :-)
I shall bookmark the IP then, as distrowatch is my favorite site... I
love to monitor Ubuntu's progress !!! :o)

> interesting question.
> i was thinking it is political, to limit file sharing.
> does someone here know how much uploading costs providers ?

I don't think it should cost anything. I mean, maybe I am bit naive or
ignorant,  but when we use BT, all we do is redistribute the existing
bandwidth accross all the users (hence ISPs) over the world. We are not
using any extra BW.  If we download something from BT, hence all over
the world, then as a consequence, ISP all over the world won't have to
supply any downstream BW.  So we are just "re-arranging" the traffic
over the entire internet network, but overall, the quantity of data in
transit, is exactly the same. If we upload to someone directly though
BT, then someone somwhere won't be downloading from his ISP's server,
henc eless cost for the ISP. So I think BT makes no difference
whatsoever, and that everything is smoothed out accross the entire
internet. In short, BT rocks, and ISP should give us as much upstream BW
as downstream, at no additional cost. Period. :o)

--
Vince