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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Strange gentoo.org address
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:57:24
Message-Id: 201104072355.19328.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org
1 Hello list,
2
3 Why do boxes on my network return this?
4
5 $ nslookup www.gentoo.org
6 Server: 127.0.0.1
7 Address: 127.0.0.1#53
8
9 Non-authoritative answer:
10 www.gentoo.org canonical name = www-bytemark.gentoo.org.
11 Name: www-bytemark.gentoo.org
12 Address: 89.16.167.134
13
14 (This is on the dnsmasq box, which has no difficulty with any other addresses.)
15
16 It doesn't cause Firefox a problem on my KDE workstation, but on this box and
17 others the links text-only browser can't find the site. Not helpful when I'm
18 trying to find a cure for a problem while working in text mode.
19
20 --
21 Rgds
22 Peter