Linux Forums unreachable.

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Mon, February 22, 2010 16:38, Xandros Pilosa wrote:
> Dne 22.02.2010 (pon) ob 05:19 -0800 je Ray Parrish zapisal(a):
> [snip]
>> >
>> > 3. Now add an entry for the name into /etc/hosts:
>> >
>> >       174.132.123.98   www.linuxforums.org
>> >
>> >    You will need to be root to do this.
>> >
>> >    Does your browser now find the desired site? If yes, it is
>> >    *definitely* a DNS problem. Remember to remove the new entry
>> >    from /etc/hosts before further testing!
>> >
>> > How to fix a DNS problem is a bigger question :-)
>> >
> [snip]
>> And adding the ip address to the hosts file made no difference.
>>
>> Thanks, Ray Parrish
>>
>
> Hello,
>
> it seems to me, it might be firefox issue, in Hardy at least.
> Here, for example ff ver. 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 take ages to load
> the page, while Konqueror ver. 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 has no problem.

Ray,

You tried the telnet test with the IP address.
Could you try it again, with the hostname? Try the HTTP 1.1 protocol this
time, so you need to specify the host.


telnet www.linuxforums.org 80

Then when you are connected, type:

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.linuxforums.org
And <ENTER> twice.


-- 
Amedee