If the freeradius.org is a virtual site bound to that IP address, hitting the IP may not display the content you're looking for. Which is why putting it into /etc/hosts resolved your issue, because your web browser is sending an HTTP request with a virtual site's domain name, and then the web server knows what content to deliver. Frank -----Original Message----- From: freeradius-users-bounces+frnkblk=iname.com@lists.freeradius.org [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+frnkblk=iname.com@lists.freeradius.org] On Behalf Of Karl Auer Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 9:59 AM To: FreeRadius users mailing list Subject: Re: Problem with freeradius.org website On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 16:11 +0200, Leander S. wrote:
I don't face this kind of problems ether. I'm located in Germany close to Stuttgart ... The problem you face has something to do with you're internet provider.
Thank you all for your swift diagnoses of problems at my end :-) If I went to 64.34.165.250, one of the two IP addresses for the name "freeradius.org", I got "500 service temporarily unavailable", apparently due to "maintenance downtime or capacity problems". I get the same message if I go to leia.telante.com. the canonical name of that address. The other IP address for the name "freeradius.org", 88.191.76.12, responded instantly, with a page from someone called Network RADIUS, Inc. The canonical name for the address, liberty.deployingradius.com, returned a page too. Attempts to go to the *name* "freeradius.org" always failed (timeouts). All of this was - and is! - completely repeatable. Oddly enough, when I force freeradius.org to be 64.34.165.250 using my local /etc/hosts file, everything works. No idea why. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (kauer@biplane.com.au) +61-2-64957160 (h) http://www.biplane.com.au/~kauer/ +61-428-957160 (mob) GPG fingerprint: DD23 0DF3 2260 3060 7FEC 5CA8 1AF6 D9E3 CFEE 6B28