From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 18 10:38:50 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AF6816A4CE for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 10:38:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vscan01.westnet.com.au (vscan01.westnet.com.au [203.10.1.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ACC543D41 for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 10:38:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gavp@westnet.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98E8C14DC1C; Wed, 18 May 2005 18:38:48 +0800 (WST) Received: from vscan01.westnet.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vscan01.westnet.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11201-10; Wed, 18 May 2005 18:38:48 +0800 (WST) Received: from [10.1.1.9] (dsl-220-235-75-216.qld.westnet.com.au [220.235.75.216]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by vscan01.westnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 426FE14DBE1; Wed, 18 May 2005 18:38:48 +0800 (WST) From: "Gavin R. Putland" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 20:38:33 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200505181520.23507.brainiac@westnet.com.au> <200505181633.11251.gavp@westnet.com.au> <20050518014034.U62516@mail.goinet.com> In-Reply-To: <20050518014034.U62516@mail.goinet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505182038.33536.gavp@westnet.com.au> Subject: Re: Main web site... & egg on my face X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 10:38:50 -0000 Ahem... On Wed, 18 May 2005 04:41 pm, Tony Shadwick wrote: > Just out of curiousity... > > cat /etc/resolv.conf That gives the local primary and secondary nameservers of my ISP, as I believe it should. The problem was not likely to be in my machine because I have done a few OS installs in recent days, whereas www.freebsd.org and the underlying releng pages, as seen by me, are several months old. I was familiar with resolv.conf, but not the following: > nslookup www.freebsd.org That gives: Server: 203.21.20.20 Address: 203.21.20.20#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: www.freebsd.org Address: 216.136.204.117 The "Server" is my ISP's primary nameserver. I don't know the significance of the #53, but I can report that it has been consistent for a couple of hours. When I load 216.136.204.117 into a browser, I get the UP-TO-DATE FreeBSD home page. That suggested to me that my ISP uses a proxy which can be bypassed by typing the real IP address instead of the mnemonic version thereof. So I got on a bus, went to an internet cafe and, having established that the cafe didn't use the same ISP, typed in www.freebsd.org... and got the up-to-date version. So I'll take up the matter with my ISP. (Or perhaps I should change to internode.on.net, whose servers apparently run FreeBSD.) > :) Indeed. With thanks (and apologies, if amusement is outweighed by annoyance). Gavin R. Putland.