Tim wrote:
> Proxying can only speed things up, for you, if you access something
> that someone else has already accessed before you. *And* if that
> data is cacheable.
I replied:
> In general, true.
>
> It doesn’t sound as though this service is conventional proxying,
> though. It sounds like t
On 23/10/12 03:54, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
On 23/10/12 02:14, James Wilkinson wrote:
I’ve been involved with a similar problem, with a site with lots of
small graphics hosted in the UK, and customers in Australia. Putting the
graphics on a content delivery network with Australia
Tim wrote:
>> Proxying can only speed things up, for you, if you access something
>> that someone else has already accessed before you. *And* if that
>> data is cacheable.
James Wilkinson:
> In general, true.
>
> It doesn’t sound as though this service is conventional proxying,
> though. It soun
On 23/10/12 02:14, James Wilkinson wrote:
I’ve been involved with a similar problem, with a site with lots of
small graphics hosted in the UK, and customers in Australia. Putting the
graphics on a content delivery network with Australian servers knocked
five seconds off page load time. Fedora net
Tim wrote:
> Proxying can only speed things up, for you, if you access something that
> someone else has already accessed before you. *And* if that data is
> cacheable.
In general, true.
It doesn’t sound as though this service is conventional proxying,
though. It sounds like they’re dynamically
Bob Goodwin:
> Assuming the Newegg problem was due to an address change, should the
> Wildblue dns have caught up with it sooner?
That depends... DNS records have time-to-live data, that says how long
records should be cached for. So, if a website's record say cache me
for 15 days, then that's w
On 21/10/12 08:28, Tim wrote:
You are paying for a service. If they're not doing it right, or good
enough, it is fair to ask them to fix something up. If you have a
particular problem site, ask them about it.
Yes I will and do ask when I have trouble. When I do call tech
support they ac
Bob Goodwin:
> All things considered, the ISP people are professionals, I am an
> amateur and it seems unlikely that I will beat them at their game.
> So what it boils down to is I am doing things for my own amusement,
> and just need to be careful not to leave the system in bad shape out
> of cons
On 21/10/12 00:48, Tim wrote:
Bob Goodwin:
So it looks like my ISP is what it is and I probably can't change
things without degrading the service I have now which is quite good
then it works. Their are minor glitches that I have not been able to
assign the blame for, it occasionally requ
Bob Goodwin:
> So it looks like my ISP is what it is and I probably can't change
> things without degrading the service I have now which is quite good
> then it works. Their are minor glitches that I have not been able to
> assign the blame for, it occasionally requires re-booting either the
>
On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 13:22:19 -0400
Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> I'm already confused. If I don't want it listening on the internet and
> our LAN [eth0] on this computer where do I tell it to go?
# If you want dnsmasq to provide only DNS service on an interface,
# configure it as s
On 20/10/12 12:51, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 10:30:00 -0400
Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
If nothing else this has been a learning experience.
You could set up dnsmasq, which will cache your dns queries, saving a small
amount of bandwidth but more importantly speeding thi
On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 10:30:00 -0400
Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> If nothing else this has been a learning experience.
You could set up dnsmasq, which will cache your dns queries, saving a small
amount of bandwidth but more importantly speeding things up some.
--
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On 20/10/12 09:12, Tim wrote:
Bob Goodwin:
I was afraid that's what it meant and that explains some of the odd
results I've been seeing when changing my dns settings. It also means
that I am not getting the services I paid Opendns for which raises a
question of ethics. Should Opendns have known
Bob Goodwin:
> I was afraid that's what it meant and that explains some of the odd
> results I've been seeing when changing my dns settings. It also means
> that I am not getting the services I paid Opendns for which raises a
> question of ethics. Should Opendns have known that a particular ISP
On 20/10/12 05:20, Tim wrote:
On Sat, 2012-10-20 at 04:08 -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
wrote:
> Ok, this is what I see. What is it telling me?
>
> We detected the 2 DNS servers listed below.
>
> WARNING: If you are connected to an anonymity/privacy service and
> ANY of th
On Sat, 2012-10-20 at 04:08 -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
wrote:
> Ok, this is what I see. What is it telling me?
>
> We detected the 2 DNS servers listed below.
>
> WARNING: If you are connected to an anonymity/privacy service and
> ANY of the servers listed below are from
On 19/10/12 23:55, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 10/19/2012 01:17 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
I get [using the opendns name servers again]:
[bobg@box9 ~]$ dig @8.8.8.8 +short www.newegg.com
208.91.197.27
[bobg@box9 ~]$ dig @208.67.220.220 +short www.newegg.co
On 10/19/2012 01:17 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
>I get [using the opendns name servers again]:
>
>[bobg@box9 ~]$ dig @8.8.8.8 +short www.newegg.com
>208.91.197.27
>[bobg@box9 ~]$ dig @208.67.220.220 +short www.newegg.com
>208.91.197.27
>[
On 19/10/12 09:29, Matthew J. Roth wrote:
Bob,
I get [using the opendns name servers again]:
[bobg@box9 ~]$ dig @8.8.8.8 +short www.newegg.com
208.91.197.27
[bobg@box9 ~]$ dig @208.67.220.220 +short www.newegg.com
208.91.197.27
[bobg@box9 ~]$ dig @12.189.32.61 +short www.newegg.
Bob,
> I get [using the opendns name servers again]:
>
> [bobg@box9 ~]$ dig @8.8.8.8 +short www.newegg.com
> 208.91.197.27
> [bobg@box9 ~]$ dig @208.67.220.220 +short www.newegg.com
> 208.91.197.27
> [bobg@box9 ~]$ dig @12.189.32.61 +short www.newegg.com
> 208.91.197.27
The @IP tells
On 18/10/12 13:07, Matthew J. Roth wrote:
If all else fails, just stick the following line in "/etc/hosts":
204.14.213.188 newegg.comwww.newegg.com secure.newegg.com
Ok that got me through to their "secure" site and I obtained the
number they requested and sent it back to them. I'll se
On 18/10/12 12:36, Matthew J. Roth wrote:
Bob Goodwin wrote:
[bobg@box9 ~]$ wget 204.14.213.188
--2012-10-18 12:13:39-- http://204.14.213.188/
Connecting to 204.14.213.188:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://www.newegg.com/Index.aspx [following]
-
Bob,
It turns out that you're not the only one having this problem.
Newegg isn't working - Overclockers Australia Forums
http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?p=14825407
The person in that thread solved the problem by switching to Google's
public DNS server. That may not work for
Bob Goodwin wrote:
> [bobg@box9 ~]$ wget 204.14.213.188
> --2012-10-18 12:13:39-- http://204.14.213.188/
> Connecting to 204.14.213.188:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
> Location: http://www.newegg.com/Index.aspx [following]
> --2012-10-18 12:13:40-- http:
On 10/18/2012 11:43 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
On 18/10/12 10:30, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 10/18/2012 07:13 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
Isn't there a scheme for running Firefox with all the add-ons
disabled? I haven't been able to find anything there and I h
On 18/10/12 12:01, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 10/18/2012 11:35 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
On 18/10/12 10:24, Ed Greshko wrote:
Did you try
telnet newegg.com 80
telnet newegg.com 80 paralyzes the terminal, just sits there:
bobg@box9 ~]$ telnet newegg
On 10/18/2012 11:35 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
>On 18/10/12 10:24, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Did you try
>>
>> telnet newegg.com 80
>>
>telnet newegg.com 80 paralyzes the terminal, just sits there:
>
>bobg@box9 ~]$ telnet newegg.com 80
>Trying 208.91
Bob Goodwin wrote:
> bobg@box9 ~]$ telnet newegg.com 80
> Trying 208.91.197.27...
That is not Newegg's IP address:
$ dig +short www.newegg.com
204.14.213.185
$ dig +short secure.newegg.com
216.52.208.188
$ dig +short newegg.com
204.14.213.187
216.52.208.187
Try putting "nameser
On 18/10/12 10:30, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 10/18/2012 07:13 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
Isn't there a scheme for running Firefox with all the add-ons
disabled? I haven't been able to find anything there and I haven't
changed any recently.
Click on Help->Restart with Add
On 18/10/12 10:24, Ed Greshko wrote:
Did you try
telnet newegg.com 80
telnet newegg.com 80 paralyzes the terminal, just sits there:
bobg@box9 ~]$ telnet newegg.com 80
Trying 208.91.197.27...
Connected to newegg.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
On 10/18/2012 07:13 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
Isn't there a scheme for running Firefox with all the add-ons
disabled? I haven't been able to find anything there and I haven't
changed any recently.
Click on Help->Restart with Addons Disabled.
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On 10/18/2012 10:13 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
>
>
>Isn't there a scheme for running Firefox with all the add-ons
>disabled? I haven't been able to find anything there and I haven't
>changed any recently.
>
>Thanks for the suggestions,
>
>Bob
>
>
Firefox option
On 10/18/2012 10:13 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> On 18/10/12 09:12, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> I once had bits of newegg stop working until I went into
>> the about:config in firefox and disabled IPv6 (of course
>> the IPv6 guys all say this is absolutely impossible
>> and couldn't hav
On 18/10/12 09:12, Tom Horsley wrote:
I once had bits of newegg stop working until I went into
the about:config in firefox and disabled IPv6 (of course
the IPv6 guys all say this is absolutely impossible
and couldn't have any effect, but despite that, there
was a 100% correlation between newegg w
On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 09:12 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I once had bits of newegg stop working until I went into
> the about:config in firefox and disabled IPv6 (of course
> the IPv6 guys all say this is absolutely impossible
> and couldn't have any effect, but despite that, there
> was a 100% corr
On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 06:54:33 -0600
Peter Reed wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 05:32:28 -0400
> "Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" wrote:
>
> > This is an updated [yesterday] F17/64 bit computer. Suddenly
> > Newegg.com produces errors:
> >
> > Error. Page cannot be displayed. Ple
I once had bits of newegg stop working until I went into
the about:config in firefox and disabled IPv6 (of course
the IPv6 guys all say this is absolutely impossible
and couldn't have any effect, but despite that, there
was a 100% correlation between newegg working and the
IPv6 flag in firefox bein
On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 05:32:28 -0400
"Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" wrote:
> This is an updated [yesterday] F17/64 bit computer. Suddenly
> Newegg.com produces errors:
>
> Error. Page cannot be displayed. Please contact your service
> provider for more details. (4)
>
On 10/18/2012 05:32 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
>This is an updated [yesterday] F17/64 bit computer. Suddenly
>Newegg.com produces errors:
>
>Error. Page cannot be displayed. Please contact your service
>provider for more details. (4)
>
>
> Erro
This is an updated [yesterday] F17/64 bit computer. Suddenly
Newegg.com produces errors:
Error. Page cannot be displayed. Please contact your service
provider for more details. (4)
Error. Page cannot be displayed. Please contact your
service provide
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