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On Sunday, 6 March 2022 11:07:54 GMT John Covici wrote: |
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> On Sun, 06 Mar 2022 05:20:07 -0500, |
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> |
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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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> > |
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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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Which browser? The ones I've tried would first try youtube.com, and if that |
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fails name lookup it will try prepending www. That may happen too fast for you |
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to notice, though. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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