Linux Forums unreachable.

[Ray Parrish]

Nils Kassube wrote:
> 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
>   
I tried that, and telnet never connects. Also, I tried to telnet to the 
web server one of my web sites is hosted on, and it could not connect 
there either, and I can load web pages from there no problem, so that 
didn't prove much to me.

My browser waits a really long time when it tries to connect to 
linuxforums.org so I don't think it's a timeout problem.

Later, Ray Parrish


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