PLEASE READ THIS

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Author: Dave Shepherd
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 00:00

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2nd Warwick Venture Sea Scouts have a Web Page at:
http://welcome.to/endeavour_online/

Have a look, and tell us what you think.  It is always changing so come back
soon too see the changes.

Re: PLEASE READ THIS

#118

Author: Chris Wilkinson
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 00:00

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In article <7jbh8v$8sm$1@nclient1-gui.server.virgin.net>, Dave Shepherd
<dave.shepherd@virgin.net> writes
>2nd Warwick Venture Sea Scouts have a Web Page at:
>http://welcome.to/endeavour_online/
>
>Have a look, and tell us what you think.  It is always changing so come back
>soon too see the changes.
>
>
Nice one

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://welcome.to/endeavour_online/ 

The following error was encountered: 

ERROR 312 -- Cannot connect to the server 
This means that: 

    The server might be down, or it could be inaccessible because of a
temporary problem. Please try again later.
If you receive this message frequently, contact your system
administrator.


Chris T
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Re: PLEASE READ THIS

#119

Author: James Smith
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 00:00

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Chris Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> Nice one
> While trying to retrieve the URL: http://welcome.to/endeavour_online/
> The following error was encountered:> 
> ERROR 312 -- Cannot connect to the server
> This means that:
>     The server might be down, or it could be inaccessible because of a
> temporary problem. Please try again later.
> If you receive this message frequently, contact your system
> administrator.
> 

Chris, you were not the only one to see the same error - this is
a common problem with these "go.to" and "welcome.to" addresses, all
they are redirectors, but the servers have to "live" in the country
that the domain belongs to - which I think in this case is Tonga...
consequently these links are regularly down - I would suggest to
people to include their actual URL rather than one of these
redirectors if you want people to read their site.

Baggy
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Re: PLEASE READ THIS

#120

Author: Stephen White
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 00:00

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> but the servers have to "live" in the country
> that the domain belongs to - which I think in this case is Tonga...
> consequently these links are regularly down

Erm, no.  Actually it's normally just that the servers are simply too
busy.  They don't have to live in some far off place - they can be
positioned wherever you want.  Internet routing is done by IP, and you
can point any name at any IP, so the fact that it's name ends .to is
irrelevant when deciding on the location of the server.

try: www.earth.li for example - I can assure you that this machine is
not in Liechtenstein, a traceroute will confirm it's location in an ISP
called 'pair'.  the.earth.li lives in Amsterdam, but I don't think it's
plugged in at the moment.  Last year there were many .earth.li named
computers that also had .ox.ac.uk names and lived in Oxford - but this
was banned by the university :(

Traceroute suggests www.come.to might be in Holland BTW.

-- 
Stephen White <swhite@ox.compsoc.net>
A.S.L. 1st Sandleheath Sea Scout Group