[OT] Rogers DNS Games? I Can't Access craigslist.org

[James Knott]

Meng Cheah wrote:
> Meng Cheah wrote:
>> Stephen wrote:
>>> I have Roger's as my ISP.
>>>
>>> All of my Internet functions work fine.
>>>
>>> I can access web sites, all except craigslist.org
>>>
>>> Firefox reports the connection was refused.
>>>
>>> I ping, the name resolves, but I get no response.
> This is what I get:
> 
> PING craigslist.org (208.82.236.208) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 208-236-82.208.craigslist.org (208.82.236.208): icmp_seq=1 
> ttl=247                                                 time=131 ms
> 64 bytes from 208-236-82.208.craigslist.org (208.82.236.208): icmp_seq=2 
> ttl=247                                                 time=129 ms
> 64 bytes from 208-236-82.208.craigslist.org (208.82.236.208): icmp_seq=3 
> ttl=247                                                 time=143 ms
> 64 bytes from 208-236-82.208.craigslist.org (208.82.236.208): icmp_seq=4 
> ttl=247                                                 time=158 ms
> 
> --- craigslist.org ping statistics ---
> 4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 2998ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 129.990/140.787/158.148/11.277 ms
> meng at nemesis:~$ ping 208-236-82.208
> ping: unknown host 208-236-82.208
> 
> #my comment   Why the hyphens and period?    208-236-82.208 
> meng at nemesis:~$ ping 208.82.236.208
> PING 208.82.236.208 (208.82.236.208) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 208.82.236.208: icmp_seq=1 ttl=247 time=229 ms
> 64 bytes from 208.82.236.208: icmp_seq=2 ttl=247 time=330 ms
> 64 bytes from 208.82.236.208: icmp_seq=3 ttl=247 time=308 ms
> 64 bytes from 208.82.236.208: icmp_seq=4 ttl=247 time=153 ms

Hmmm...  I get 66.150.253.241 on both Rogers and Sympatico.  A host 
lookup on 208.82.236.208 resolves to  208-236-82.208.craigslist.org.


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