[Mono-dev] RE: Mono website down ?

[Kornél Pál]

Hi,

You should have a look at the specification of HTTP protocol.:)
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2616.txt

I assume that you have basic knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS and HTTP:

HTTP uses TCP/IP. TCP/IP connections are IP address based. IP address is
queried from DNS server and will used to connect to the target computer. But
the target computer has no idea about the host name used. Multiple web sites
can be hosted on a single server (as it has enough resources) but you should
have a dedicated IP address for each web site with the knowledge of the
above things. That is something that is expensive and leads to IP wasting.
HTTP/1.1 has support to pass the host name you used in URL in a HTTP header
named "Host". This means that the server still has no idea about the host
name you queried using DNS but knows the host name you sent it in HTTP
headers that is probably the same you used in DNS query. (expected HTTP
client behaviour:) Also note that Host header is required by HTTP/1.1.

This means that the browser has to pass the correct Host header otherwise
you may get a different web site depending on the configuration of the web
server. (Web servers can have a default web site as well that is used if you
use IP as Host or specify a non configured Host name.)

For more information please read the referenced HTTP protocol specification.

http://64.14.94.188/ is the same site as http://www.go-mono.com/ but it
redirects to http://www.mono-project.com/

Your problem seems to be that your local DNS server cached the old
www.mono-project.com address (that is the address of a server that serves a
Novell home page according to your description). Or maybe it was
misconfigured at a time and you DNS server cached it. You should empty DNS
cache or wait for it.

It addition you can map www.mono-project.com to 64.14.94.162.

On Windows edit C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

But doing this is just working around the problem insted of looking at your
DNS servers.

Kornél

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sébastien Robitaille" <sebastien.robitaille at croesus.com>
To: "'Kornél Pál'" <kornelpal at hotmail.com>;
<mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com>
Cc: "'Joe Audette'" <joe_audette at yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 3:49 PM
Subject: RE: [Mono-dev] RE: Mono website down ?


Thanks. But that does not work...

64.14.94.162 is the "Banshee" web site.
64.14.94.188 is the Novell web site (without css).

Sébas


-----Message d'origine-----
De : Kornél Pál [mailto:kornelpal at hotmail.com]
Envoyé : Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:40 AM
À : Sébastien Robitaille; mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
Cc : 'Joe Audette'
Objet : Re: [Mono-dev] RE: Mono website down ?

www.mono-project.com=64.14.94.162
www.go-mono.com=64.14.94.188

Kornél

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sébastien Robitaille" <sebastien.robitaille at croesus.com>
To: <mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com>
Cc: "'Joe Audette'" <joe_audette at yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 3:06 PM
Subject: RE: [Mono-dev] RE: Mono website down ?


We have the same problem here.
BTW, I was able to access the mono web site during the weekend from home.

Can somebody post the mono web page IP address to this list so that if it is
a DNS problem people can still access it?

Thanks
Sébas

-----Message d'origine-----
De : mono-devel-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com
[mailto:mono-devel-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com] De la part de Joe Audette
Envoyé : Sunday, October 09, 2005 8:59 AM
À : mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
Objet : Re: [Mono-dev] RE: Mono website down ?

I saw this issue yesterday when it was first reported,
then it seemed to heal itself but today it is back
again. I'm getting a generic looking Novell site when
I try to visit the mono project site on either of my
machines, windows or Suse. I get the same results in
Firefox or IE

Joe

--- Matt Philmon <mattisking at pobox.com> wrote:

> Let's see if this one posts... My last response is
> apparently waiting on
> approval... Whatever.
>
> I'm seeing the same thing and it's still happening
> as of this evening
> (Saturday). It started sometime on Friday (though
> early-ish). Here's a twist
> though:
>
> Work: Windows 2000 Professional using Firefox 1.5 B2
> AND IE 6.x I cannot
> browse to the Mono site. I get that stripped down
> Novell site instead and
> Monologue is unreachable. This happens the same on
> both browsers.
>
> Home: I have 2 computers. The one running Windows XP
> Professional SP2 has
> the exact same problem as the one at work... Cannot
> get the the mono page...
> Redirected to this Novell thing. HOWEVER, on my
> other PC that runs Ubuntu
> Breezy (development) and Firefox 1.0.7 I get to the
> correct page without
> problem using the same URL. My home network is
> extremely simple... DHCP
> router and cable modem hosts 2 PC's and 2 Tivos.
>
> I've tried everything I can think of to try.
> Something is seriously messed
> up in the configuration of the site. I think it's
> somehow failing to
> recognize Windows OS or something.
>
> Matt Philmon
>
>
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