Re: is oss.sgi.com down

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>]

At 22:49 11-8-2001 +0200, Juergen Hasch wrote:
>Am Samstag, 11. August 2001 22:29 schrieb Timothy Ball:
> > On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 09:58:00PM +0200, Seth Mos wrote:
> > > At 21:29 11-8-2001 -0400, Knut J Bjuland wrote:
> > > >I have not been able to reach oss.sgi.com this weekend. It is down?
> > >
> > > No, if you have tcp_ecn enabled you might switch off with
> > >
> > > echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
> > >
> > > If this is the case, a router of the ISP where oss lives needs to be
> > > upgraded.
> >
> > Uhh... I can't ping it either from any network I'm on including
> > different OS'ed machines.
>
>Seems to be a DNS problem, try 216.32.174.27.

It works for me. Note: The router they have probably does not pass icmp 
packets. You can't ping it but you can telnet to port 80 :-)

Groet

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