Ah this brings back fond memories of the internet past. When you had to know the IP address of a sever.
Now days the DNS sever is suppose to remember them for you. It goes like this; Website registers name of site and the ip address that the html file can be found. The DNS service that your ISP uses takes this info and saves it. You the user type in Foo.com Your browser ask's the DNS sever hey where is this Foo.com at. The DNS sever should send back hey its at this ip address. The browser saves this in its caches saying boy I don't have to look that up again. User empties cache and then the next time the browser goes to Foo.com the look up fails Oops can not find address. openDNS is easy to set up and works great I use it at Home. http://www.opendns.com/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anne Cartwright Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 7:19 PM To: Macintosh topics Subject: Re: [MacGroup] dns annoyances 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 > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be September 23 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: [email protected] > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be September 23 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be September 23 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
