Re: Ada In Crosstalk

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>]

Wes Groleau wrote:
>  >>I think it's like a miniature slashdot effect.
>  >>C.L.A. mentions the site, and their server can't
>  >>handle the sudden flood (of twenty-five people).
> 
>> No, this is an issue that Dr. Paus has mentioned befor in this forum 
>> -- the
>> .mil sites deny access to certain foreign IP addresses.
> 
> I can believe that.
> 
> On the other hand, almost every time
> I try to follow an STSC reference in CLA,
> (from my Indiana worksite, through
> a proxy in Boston, Dallas, or Los Angeles),
> it fails.  It usually works the next day.

Many times, people have confused "access" with "name
server resolution errors". When you go to a web site,
two things must happen :

   1. The "resolver" must lookup the site name (host name)
      by contacting a chain of name servers.
   2. Using the IP # from the resolver, you then establish
      a session with the webserver.

These are two completely different processes, although they
look "combined" when you make use of a browser (you are
more aware of this when you do socket programming).

Try contacting directly by IP # 137.241.248.34  (this
was an "unauthoritative" answer according to my nslookup).

Some of you may just not be "resolving" the host site name.
Others may indeed have IP access related issues.

-- 
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg