Problem with freeradius.org website

[Frank Bulk]

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 at lists.freeradius.org
[mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+frnkblk=iname.com at 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.

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