Linux Forums unreachable.

[Nils Kassube]

Ray Parrish wrote:
> > On Fri, February 19, 2010 06:01, Ray Parrish wrote:
> >> Is anyone else having trouble accessing the Linux Forms? Here is
> >> what I get -
> >>
> >>  >Network Timeout
> >>  >
> >>  >The server at www.linuxforums.org is taking too long to respond.
> >>  >
> >>  >The requested site did not respond to a connection request and
> >>  > the
> >>
> >> browser has >stopped waiting for a reply.

It seems to be a problem with your browser which doesn't wait long 
enough. 

> I do not think it is a DNS problem, as I used the following Python
>  code to retrieve the ip address of lunuxforums.org as
>  174.132.123.98, and attempted to connect to that ip address with my
>  web browser [Firefox], and was unable to connect.
> 
> > >>> Address = socket.getaddrinfo("www.linuxforums.org", None)
> > >>> Address
> >
> > [(2, 1, 6, '', ('174.132.123.98', 0)), (2, 2, 17, '',
> > ('174.132.123.98', 0)), (2, 3, 0, '', ('174.132.123.98', 0))]

Same address (174.132.123.98) here. Try

telnet 174.132.123.98 80

Then when you are connected, type:

GET / HTTP/1.0
And <ENTER> twice.

That should give you the HTML code of the main page of the server. And 
you could probably see if and where there is a long delay.

Another possible source of your problem might be a delay for the servers 
referenced from that page, e.g. ad1.netshelter.net or ad2.netshelter.net 
or kona.kontera.com.


Nils