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Kev's reported problems accessing Strange Attractor recently. I haven't noticed a significant problem, but if you have can you please let me know? Have you tried to read or comment and found there to be problems?
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DNS trouble? I get the following here just north of London 😉
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> strange.corante.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
But then:
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> corante.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34463 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;corante.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: corante.com. 8888 IN A 69.50.217.200 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: corante.com. 37686 IN NS ns1.corante.com. corante.com. 37686 IN NS ns2.corante.com. ;; Query time: 29 msec ;; SERVER: 212.23.3.100#53(212.23.3.100) ;; WHEN: Thu Oct 5 14:38:07 2006 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 81
Ew.
I am currently getting:
The connection was reset
The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
Which is not so useful either.
It seems to have come back up now….
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