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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] applications cannot access anything on youtube
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2022 10:20:15
Message-Id: 11960259.O9o76ZdvQC@wstn
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] applications cannot access anything on youtube by John Covici
1 On Sunday, 6 March 2022 09:39:32 GMT John Covici wrote:
2 > Hi. On my gentoo box, no application including ping can access
3 > www.youtube.com. However, a dig is doing it correctly, so I can not
4 > understand what is happening. A restart of named, gives me the same
5 > result. This is very baffling to me. If I change the URL to just
6 > youtube.com, it tries to work till the redirect to www.youtube.com and
7 > then stops dead.
8
9 The host name is youtube.com. The 'www' is just a prefix for humans to
10 recognise; it has no real function any more, as far as I know.
11
12 --
13 Regards,
14 Peter.

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