Re: still no connectioon to www.ncsa.uiuc.edu

frans van hoesel (hoesel@chem.rug.nl)
Wed, 4 May 1994 21:23:48 +0100 (MDT)

>
> We are running some traceroutes from our end back to you. Our suspicion is
> that there is a timeout problem once you hit fix-east (getting across the
> ocean.) I do see that you have been able to connect a few time during the
> past week (May 1, May 2.) It would be helpful to have specific dates and
> times that you experience problems.
>
Hi eric,

(and others with the same problem)

The problem has been resolved! For a long time I had an entry
for www.ncsa.uiuc.edu in my /etc/hosts (to save a round trip to the
nameserver over my slip line)

three people told me to remove that entry, and so I did. Instantly I
could reconnect to ncsa as I could before.

perhaps a short message on the meta-announcements in what's new should
mention this explicitly.

I'm a happy user again!

:-) (see I'm happy)

-frans