For the past half hour, I kept getting an error message that the DNS server couldnt locate greenspun.com, so finally just tried the internet octet equivalent and popped right on over to the top level and treed my way on down.

http://18.24.3.72/

Rollover pre-tests? Kewl!

;-D

Diane

See thread...

Time To Develop Your Internet Ping List (Need Help)

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001xIb

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), December 18, 1999

Answers

Duly noted... Thanks Diane...

-- STFrancis (STFrancis@heaven.com), December 18, 1999.

It also hung up on hotlinking to that referenced thread, so I just substituted:

http://18.24.3.72/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001xIb

For...

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001xIb

And again, it popped right to the specific thread.

((((Y2K Lessons to learn))))

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), December 18, 1999.

LOL - We don't need no stinkin' DNS... <:)))=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), December 18, 1999.

Gotta love TCP/IP

-- STFrancis (STFrancis@heaven.com), December 18, 1999.

Can't say "Thanks Diane" w/o an error message so just thanks

-- Carlos (riffraff1@cybertime.net), December 18, 1999.

The top page for this forum is then:
http://18.24.3.72/bboard/q-and-a.tcl?topic=TimeBomb%202000%20(Y2000) But then all the LINKS start with the "18...." so none of the "visited links" when you used "www.greenspun.com" are highlighted. Sigh.

-- A (A@AisA.com), December 18, 1999.

bold off. slight difference between "br" and "b". :-)

-- A (A@AisA.com), December 18, 1999.

posting this from the "18.24..." to see what happens.

-- A (A@AisA.com), December 18, 1999.

Making my favorite "pings" list... and checking it twice!

;-D

Diane

(Night)

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), December 18, 1999.

Looks like all of this "pinging" is putting the server out of commission. It has been slower than molasses the last couple hours.

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), December 18, 1999.

Blah. Name resolution is a luxury, you spoiled brats. (um, jk)

-- Mori-Nu (silkenet@yahoo.com), December 18, 1999.

Same problem this morning. Only way to get here was to use...

http://18.24.3.72/bboard/q-and-a.tcl?topic= TimeBomb%202000%20%28Y2000%29

Humm. Curious.

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), December 18, 1999.

So Diane, for us non-technoweenies--what the heck is a "ping"? And what is this ping called love?

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), December 18, 1999.

Lars,

Read the thread hotlinked above "Time To Develop Your Internet Ping List (Need Help)"

Just got an e-mail from another TBY2K'er in Silicon Valley who can't access the forum. (Gave him the # codes).

Humm.

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), December 18, 1999.