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But before you can hand out a URL, you have to make sure it actually
works:

URL to open: www.clublibertel.qc.ca
Alert!: Unable to access document.

@cam % ping www.clublibertel.qc.ca
ping: unknown host www.clublibertel.qc.ca

It's been like that for at least ten days.

(The IP address is in numerical form, and is the real address that
matters.  Each time you type in a name like www.clublibertel.qc.ca,
a computer somewhere has to look it up to get the numerical address,
and then it connects to that.  If the mechanism for looking up the IP
address is not working, then you can't get to that site with the URL.
It's common, or perhaps it's defined, that you have that information
in two places, just in case one of them isn't working at any given time.)

Shades of Libertel! The same thing happened last fall, when Libertel was
briefly alive.  As far as I can remember, and I could look it up, it was
the only time any one of the board of directors came down from the 13th
floor to post in the newsgroup.  I recall that the name was stashed at
McGill, and the answer given was that big power blackout that occurred.
But I recall someone telling me that he couldn't reach the Libertel
website, indicating it might have been more of a problem.


look up the IP address, via=20
   Linkname: DNS Lookup Gateway
   Filename: http://rhinoceros.cs.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp/dns.html

                              DNS Lookup Gateway
     _________________________________________________________________

   Hostname clublibertel.qc.ca has the following information:

Name:    clublibertel.qc.ca
Address:  207.139.76.98
     _________________________________________________________________

@cam % ping 207.139.76.98
207.139.76.98 is alive


A place to start, as with anything related to getting a unix system going,
is with a Linux Howto.  Try:

   Linkname: DNS-HOWTO
   Filename: http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO


ANd here's a good starting point to figure out where something went wrong:

Subject:      clublibertel.qc.ca registered
From:         CA-Registrar@cdnnet.CA (CA Domain Registrar)
Date:         1997/05/07
Message-Id:   <199705070933.CAA03107@ns.cdnnet.ca>
Newsgroups:   can.domain
[More Headers]

Subdomain:      ClubLibertel.qc.ca
Date-Received:  1997/04/30
Date-Approved:  1997/05/07
Organization:   Club Libertel Montreal
Type:           Non-Profit Corporation
Description:    A francophone freenet based in the province of Quebec.
                Quebec subdomain level was chosen because we will be
                provincially incorporated with a mandate to serve the
                province of Quebec, Canada.  We specialize in bridging and
                building community based resources via the Internet
network.
Admin-Name:     Michel Gauthier
Admin-Title:    President and Coordinator
Admin-Postal:   Club Libertel  Montreal
                c/o Michel B. Gauthier
                3597 Carr=E9 Marguerite Bourgeoys
                Boisbriand, Qu=E9bec
                J7H 1M2
Admin-Phone:    +1 (514) 430 0978
Admin-Fax:      +1 (514) 933-1522
Admin-Mailbox:  gauthm02@cam.org
Tech-Name:      Horace Stewart
Tech-Title:     Technical Assistant
Tech-Postal:    Club Libertel Montreal
                c/o Horace Stewart
                1420 St.-Mathieu, suite 504
                Montreal, Qu=E9bec
                H3H 2J1
Tech-Phone:     +1 (514) 933 1522
Tech-Fax:       +1 (514) 933 1522
Tech-Mailbox:   hms2@cam.org
Location:       45 31 6 N / 73 45 0 W city
Net-Provider:   other
NS1-Hostname:   ns2.spiders.com
NS2-Hostname:   hydro.cam.org



On Mon, 5 Oct 1997, Derek Tattersall <au153@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:

> Montreal's new Free-Net needs Programmers
>=20
> Specifically, we need:
>=20
> *PRIORITY*   - Unix programmers  (knowledge of FreeBsd an asset);
>=20
>      - Assorted other Techies, for software installation, trouble-shootin=
g,
>        and maintenance;
>=20
>      - Translators,  trainers, fundraisers, writers, and basically anyone
>        willing to donate their time to a successful Community Network in
>        Montreal.
>=20
> What's In It For You:
>=20
>      - Recognition as one of the pioneers of Montreal's "Public Space" in
>      Cyberspace;
>=20
>      - Add to your CV;
>=20
>      - Meet a great bunch of people;
>=20
>      - Impress your peers!
>=20
> Please Join Us
>=20
>      Since the project began in December of last year, Club Libertel
> has made great strides in bringing a Community Network (Free-Net) to
> Montreal - entirely through volunteer effort and without public funding.
> We're trying to build a solid base of support before going public --
> that's why you probably haven't heard of our efforts.  Right now, we're
> incorporated, have all the technical stuff in place, but still need help
> getting the server operational.  The interface we're using has some
> portability problems with FreeBSD.  So we really need Unix-savvy voluntee=
rs.
>=20
>                                Contact Info:
>=20
>                        Derek Tattersall --  931-1099
>=20
>                    e-mail: volunteers@clublibertel.qc.ca
>=20
>          More Information:  http://www.clublibertel.qc.ca