Distrowatch down for several days?

[Tony Arnold]

Ari,

On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 18:37 +0300, Ari Torhamo wrote:

> This is the content of my /etc/hosts. I haven't added anything there
> myself. I couldn't tell if there was anything wrong :-)
> 
> 127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost	ATOMI
> 
> # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
> ::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> fe00::0 ip6-localnet
> ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
> ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
> ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

That looks fairly standard to me!

> > Or do you have any local dns entry caching that could be confusing
> > things?
> 
> I couldn't find a place to check this out. Could you tell where this can
> be done.

I'm not sure how to set this up, to be honest! I tink you would have to
be running a local BIND daemon in caching mode, or some such. You might
look at the contents of /etc/resolv.conf and make sure it's pointing to
your ISPs dns servers. If you have a router, then this might be acting
as a dns proxy, but then resolv.conf should point to your router.

> > Do you go through a proxy server to reach he internet? Can you bypass
> > it.
> 
> As far as I can tell I don't use a proxy server. At least there isn't
> one set in Firefox settings.

I see you;ve tried telnet'inf to port 80 of the IP address which does
not work either. You might want to do a netstat -r and check your
routing tables to make sure nothing weird has got in there.

> > Can you get to the site if you specify the IP address (66.180.174.3)
> > explicitly? 
> 
> Vince already suggested trying 66.180.174.35 (there's a "5" at the end),
> but neither of these IP addresses work.

Sorry about missing off the 5! Clumsy editing on my part! You might also
try traceroute from the Applications->Network Tools menu item and do a
traceroute to the IP address and see how far it gets.


> Thanks Tony :-)

You're most welcome!

Regards,
Tony.
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