[H-GEN] Re: PPP Connection to PowerUp

[Hilton Travis]

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Hi Mike,

I emailed this to my ISP, and let them know they had some tinkering to do.
Strangely enough, I now have access to your site, but they never let me know
that there *was* a problem.  No thanks, nuffin'.

Gotta love ISPs.

Regards,
Hilton

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-general at lists.humbug.org.au
> [mailto:owner-general at lists.humbug.org.au]On Behalf Of Mike Andrew
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 January 2000 8:51
> To: general at lists.humbug.org.au
> Subject: RE: [H-GEN] Re: PPP Connection to PowerUp
>
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> [ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and ]
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> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Hilton Travis wrote:
>
> > This site seems not to be there.  I keep getting DNS timeout errors when
> > connecting to this site, and also when pinging it.
> >
> > Also, my mail server is rejecting your email address as invalid.
>
> your DNS is stuffed. It's not pulling top level domain info, change to
> another dns for a start. Email cannot be fixed while your server
> isp relies
> on the same crapped out dns list that they supply your browser with. But,
> at least you can fix the latter.
>
> This is not a minor problem, your isp has major troubles being properly
> connected to the net. The problem first surfaced in new bind (named)
> revisions and has affected many connects - wordwide.
>
> as for mirrors of my site, try these, the info for ppp anything will help
> you greatly.
>
> http://www.eastwind.com.au/mirror.htm                       australia
> http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/netllama/linux.html  east coast US
> http://yourpage.blazenet.net/millerlw/default.html         west coast
> http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/mirror/          canada
>
>  --
> http://users.nf/linux/ + mirrors
> StepByStep submissions: mikero at norfolk.nf
>
>
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