On +2019-10-03 12:57:46 -0700, Bengt Richter wrote: > > I could not get to that manual url: > https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/X_002e509-Certificates.html > > Not with with lynx, nor [...]
> IOW, I couldn't get to the manual. > Am I in a DNS bubble of some kind? > > If the site is just bogged down busy it shouldn't 404, right? > Nor on some auth failure -- that should be another code, right? > > Doesn't gnu.org have a little broken-link scanner for its own domain? > > Does no one else encounter access problems and broken links?? > To be clearer, the url does not 404 when lynx tries to access the manual URL -- the 404's were from broken links in another page (see previous in thread). Lynx just can't find the site for https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/X_002e509-Certificates.html ------------------------------------------------------------ Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host. Looking up guix.gnu.org Unable to locate remote host guix.gnu.org. Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host. lynx: Can't access startfile https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/X_002e509-Certificates.html [19:39 ~/bs]$ stack https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/X_002e509-Certificates.html[19:39 ~/bs]$ [19:39 ~/bs]$ stack;echo https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/X_002e509-Certificates.html [19:40 ~/bs]$ ping guix.gnu.org ping: guix.gnu.org: Name or service not known [19:40 ~/bs]$ ping gnu.org PING gnu.org (209.51.188.148) 56(84) bytes of data. ^C64 bytes from 209.51.188.148: icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=93.4 ms --- gnu.org ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 93.404/93.404/93.404/0.000 ms [19:40 ~/bs]$ su -c 'setterm -file lynx-attempt.txt -dump 4' ------------------------------------------------------------ (stack is a little hack I use to append arbitrary strings to a datafile (with lengths on a metafile) using dd to effect push and pop etc, so I can get around not having X running all the time (mostly not :)) TIA again for clues. -- Regards, Bengt Richter