On 23 May 2011, Rob Kendrick <rjek(a)netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:14:07PM +0000, Tony Moore wrote:
[snip]
> Using NetSurf, the website times-out (but the rest of the net
seems
> to work normally). wget also fails
>
> wget: unable to resolve host address `www.netsurf-browser.org'
Squish's DNSCheck suggests nothing at our end is at fault. (It can
resolve the CNAME and the A record it points to using all available
paths through root servers and name servers at Pepperfish.) This
suggests a local configuration or connectivity ISP issue at your end.
Nothing would surprise me, but something bizarre seems to be happening
here! On a Windows machine, Firefox 4 immediately connects to
http://www.netsurf-browser.org/downloads/development/netsurf.zip and
downloads the file, without problem. To me, this suggests that there is
no issue with the connection, or DNS.
However, using RPCemu, RO 4.39, running on the same Windows machine,
launching the download link, in NetSurf, leads to
Could not resolve host:
www.netsurf-browser.org (Timeout while
contacting DNS servers)
and
*ping
www.netsurf-browser.org
ping: unknown host
www.netsurf-browser.org
Using the RiscPC, RO 6.20, produces exactly the same results as RPCemu.
Running on either RPCemu, or the RiscPC, NetSurf connects to other
websites, eg BBC, The Register, The Guardian, etc, without problem.
Moreover, all three machines are connected to the same LinkSys router,
so that their settings are the same.
How can
www.netsurf-browser.org be hiding from RISC OS machines?
Tony