Anne, I have been too weary to follow all this foo, there are so many
pressing things, but it always gets me when i don't know. I really
don't understand ISP either. I just have three mail accounts, ( a
little while ago I could not mail out from mac.com, not even to
Jonathan, to whom i always mail. It told me I had no assurances,
whatever that meant, but the Insight took over and it went swoosh.)
I threw my arms up with a few cussings wrapped around my
countenance, and my husband gave me a look sideways, but then I said
"AMEN" that is it, things are getting too complicated to even
formulate a question, and I had myself a cup of coffee instead.
So do get yourself a free google mail account. Macs aren't as
reliable as they once were. the frenzy of quick, quicker and quickest
progress has seized even the Steve Jobs Gang.
Marta
On Sep 11, 2008, at 7:18 PM, Anne Cartwright wrote:
I was going to say foo (as in Foo.com) since I don't really understand
any of this, but thought Marta would beat me to it.
I looked up foo.com and it couldn't find me (no real surprise there).
Actually the more I looked at their site, the less I wanted to be
listed on it.
Then I googled DNS and read the Wikipedia account on Domain Name
System and still feel lost. And what is the crap from the ISP that
Bill wants to filter out?
I understand ISP. Actually mine (win.net) had some difficulty last
weekend and none of my email came through or went out. I couldn't even
get connected to their Web site. No big loss since I didn't have
anything that had to go out that day. (May use it as an excuse if I'm
late getting an issue of Access out.)
I will probably be no worse off or better off if I really undersood
all of these messages. I'm sure life will just go on despite my
ignorance or knowledge. (Now back to working on this months Access.)
Anne Cartwright
On Sep 11, 2008, at 6:36 PM, Bill Rising wrote:
On Sep 11, 2008, at 9:25 , Lee Larson wrote:
On Sep 11, at 7:27 AM, Bill Rising wrote:
My guess is that the DNS from the ISP is now jumping in and putting
up an annoying page instead of telling Safari that the site was not
found. I really don't want this behavior, but I don't know how to
avoid it. Perhaps there is an app which I can use to refuse any
pages from the ISP?
I think your guess is correct about the DNS and I also think Ed is
right about Safari getting a link for stata/meeting from your
browsing history. I've tried variations on that idea with my own
sites. Before resetting Safari, things like louisville/~lee and
louisville/blackboard would find the pages I expected. After
resetting or turning on private browsing, they no longer work.
You've got to admit Safari moving from stata/meeting to
www.stata.com/meeting
is a pretty long jump without some sort of help from a cache.
I would think it would find that a/b is not found, then try a.com/b
then try www.a.com/b just like before. I could swear I only started
using the a/b addresses after reading that Safari was smart enough to
use them. I've also could swear I've used them on computers where no
one would have looked for stata/meeting in well over a year (like my
mom's computer). Maybe I'm just reconstructing false memories.
Is there a way to filter the crap from the ISP?
BTW... whether it is coincidental or not, as this lousy behavior
started, so did service interruptions. I think that the ISP's DNS
server is hosed.
Bill
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