difficulty regarding (links pointing to) lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

[Dazed_75]

I don't know about "suspicious", but what seems odd is that all those dns
servers reported a result for me and, yes, the same IP as the three that
reported to you.

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Mike Schwartz <schwartz at acm.org> wrote:

> That web site "http://www.whatsmydns.net/",
> seems to be pretty handy.
>
> My results (a picture) have been placed here:
> http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4086870&id=664267723
> ... OR (if you do not have a facebook account [password] ), then you might
> need to use this "free for all" URL:
> http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4086870&l=59c7504c82&id=664267723
> (they call it a "public link".)
>
> Does this tell us anything?
> It seems suspicious to me.
> --
> Mike Schwartz
> Glendale  AZ
> schwartz at acm.org
>
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Mike Schwartz <schwartz at acm.org> wrote:
>
>> Well, maybe it is some kind of "DNS" related issue.
>>
>> > All those links work fine for me using [...] AT&T DNS servers
>>
>> That could turn out to be a key item of info...
>>
>> Btw, "Craig White" <craigwhite at azapple.com>'s answers differed from mine.
>>  (Maybe a "DNS" issue!)  His *middle *result was "#fails" (which I also
>> got), but as for his 1st and 3rd, his results were "backwards" from what
>> I have been seeing -- in regard to that #works / #fails metric units.
>> (unless he had some *typo?*  naah... :-)
>>
>> Also, things seemed to work *fine *for Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com>
>> and "Stephen" <cryptworks at gmail.com>.  So there seem to be a bunch of
>> things that "could" have gone wrong, that did not...
>>
>> and I am still observing some "#fails"
>> (at least with a Chrome browser; -- but I am starting to suspect that this
>> is "NOT" a "browser"-related issue)
>>
>> FWIW, I am using Qwest DSL. I am not sure how to determine what my DNS
>> server is... Hmmm...
>>
>> Well, I did a search, and just as I was going to "
>> http://www.whatsmydns.net/", all of a sudden, my (DNS?) problems toggled,
>> and now my results match Craig White's results!
>>
>> Is that a bit suspicious?  Or maybe just a coincidence?  Hmmm...
>> Maybe it could "tell" us something...
>>
>> PS:
>> Is http://www.plug.phoenix.az.us/ maybe a bogus domain name?
>> (Did Craig White just [erroneously] "make up" that domain name?)
>> --
>>
>> Mike Schwartz
>> Glendale  AZ
>> schwartz at acm.org
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> All those links work fine for me using Firefox 3.5.9 for ubuntu on ubuntu
>>> 9.10.  I am on Mediacom Hish Speed Internet with dnsmasq running in my
>>> router with Mediacom DNS behind that (which is to say AT&T DNS servers).
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I had no issue from my work site with any of these links.
>>>>
>>>> we use cox fiber and our own DNS servers. with Win7 and chrome.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 16:13 -0700, Mike Schwartz wrote:
>>>> >> The web page
>>>> >> http://plug.phoenix.az.us/email_lists
>>>> >> has several links to URLs of the form
>>>> >> http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-devel
>>>> >> that is, links containing the "domain name"
>>>> >> lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>>>> >> to the right of the double slash.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I noticed today (this am, and then again this afternoon) that there
>>>> >> was some difficulty dereferencing those links (going to those URLs) .
>>>> >> (I tried this using both Firefox [3.6.3] [w/ Mozilla/5.0 &
>>>> >> Gecko/20100401]
>>>> >> and Google Chrome [4.1.249.1045 (42898)] today.)
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Both browsers -- (Firefox and Chrome) -- were unable to find
>>>> >> the server "lists.plug.phoenix.az.us".
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Is this something temporary?  and/or, it is something that the
>>>> >> PLUG server maintainer persons "know about", but which takes a
>>>> >> while (a long time) to fix?  (for the issue to be addressed?)
>>>> >> OR (aha) is it me?  (is no one else seeing the same problem?)
>>>> >> OR is http://plug.phoenix.az.us/email_lists somehow deprecated
>>>> >> (in which case I 'should have known' to use some alternate for it,
>>>> >> and not to use it, and not even to TRY to use ["CLICK on"] the
>>>> >> links that it contains?)
>>>> > ----
>>>> > clearly there is a problem...
>>>> >
>>>> > http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us  #works
>>>> > http://www.plug.phoenix.az.us    #fails
>>>> > http://plug.phoenix.az.us        #fails
>>>> >
>>>> > and obviously any specific url's off the failing base url's will fail
>>>> > too.
>>>> >
>>>> > Craig
>>>> > [...]
>>>> > --
>>>> > [...]
>>>> > ---------------------------------------------------
>>>> > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [...]
>>>> --
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>> Stephen
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------
>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [...]
>>>>
>>> --
>>> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
>>> [...]
>>
>>


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Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry

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that I wish it always to be kept alive.
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