On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Nathan Lutchansky wrote: > > i've come accross the problem elsewhere. it's probably written custom for > > the BBC, in which case it'll be harder to get them to fix it. > > Yes, unfortunately. Maybe deployment in Asia will entice them to fix it > before it becomes a problem for a large number of their UK users.
i was going to mention something about that. i suspect that the BBC site (including BBC worldservice, etc) has many asian readers. This will probably be the one thing to change this messy default behaviour. > > sadly, we're a small group of users, and probably the only ones to > > complain, let alone see the problem. > > But if we ALL complain, we appear to be a large group of users. ;-) i already put in my tiny voice in the matter ;) > I'll probably just create a fake bbc.net.uk file on our DNS servers with A > records for www.bbc.net.uk and newswww.bbc.net.uk copied from host -t a > lookups. another, equally messy, option. better that the balancing software responded correctly. i used some of your email in my "feedback" to the site, reporting it as a "site problem". http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/feedback/default.stm you can also send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is anybody aware of any other hosts in the bbc.net.uk domain that I should > kludge in? -Nathan not right off hand. i really do hope that bbc.co.uk is the only site with this problem. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
