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On Sun, 06 Mar 2022 05:20:07 -0500, |
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Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Sunday, 6 March 2022 09:39:32 GMT John Covici wrote: |
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> > Hi. On my gentoo box, no application including ping can access |
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> > www.youtube.com. However, a dig is doing it correctly, so I can not |
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> > understand what is happening. A restart of named, gives me the same |
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> > result. This is very baffling to me. If I change the URL to just |
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> > youtube.com, it tries to work till the redirect to www.youtube.com and |
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> > then stops dead. |
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> The host name is youtube.com. The 'www' is just a prefix for humans to |
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> recognise; it has no real function any more, as far as I know. |
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Well, if I try to go to anything on youtube with the browser, it |
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redirects to www.youtube.com which is not accessible, except using |
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dig. |
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Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: |
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How do |
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you spend it? |
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John Covici wb2una |
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covici@××××××××××.com |