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Re: odd behavior from cygwin.com



 Thanks guys, 

I'm able to get to the website now. There must have been a disturbance 
in DNS space which kept me from getting to the web site. 

Cheers. Steve. 

Dan Ritter wrote: 
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 01:30:58PM -0400, Stephen Adler wrote: 
>   
>> [adler@basement00 ~]$ nslookup cygwin.com 
>> ;; reply from unexpected source: 68.87.71.226#53, expected 68.87.73.242#53 
>> ;; Warning: ID mismatch: expected ID 31756, got 9974 
>> Server:         68.87.71.226 
>> Address:        68.87.71.226#53 
>> 
>> Non-authoritative answer: 
>> Name:   cygwin.com 
>> Address: 209.132.176.174 
>> 
>> ------------------ 
>> 
>> Guys, I got the above response from looking up cygwin.com. I'm trying to 
>> download the software, but the website seems to be down. After poking 
>> around a bit, it looks like there is a dns problem. But the above error 
>> message gives me the creeps. Should I worry about it? 
>>     
> 
> dsr@tao:~$ dig cygwin.com 
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> cygwin.com 
> ;; global options:  printcmd 
> ;; Got answer: 
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4149 
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, 
> ADDITIONAL: 0 
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION: 
> ;cygwin.com.                    IN      A 
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION: 
> cygwin.com.             43200   IN      A       209.132.176.174 
> 
> ;; Query time: 96 msec 
> ;; SERVER: 4.2.2.1#53(4.2.2.1) 
> ;; WHEN: Thu Jun 26 13:44:58 2008 
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 44 
> 
> Looks fine to me. The webpage comes up fine, too. 
> 
> -dsr- 
> 
> 
>   


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