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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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Regards, |
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Peter. |