Can't access one particular web site

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 13:25 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> The system on which I'm writing this can't access www.naxos.com .
> Another system with the same network interface (A 2-Wire Home Portal
> attached to a DSL line) has no trouble.  Typical results are from
> 
>         Firefox: www.naxos.com could not be found. Please check the name
>         and try again.
>         
>         $ host www.naxos.com
>         www.naxos.com has address 202.130.166.101
>         Host www.naxos.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
>         Host www.naxos.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
>         
>         $ ping www.naxos.com
>         ping: unknown host www.naxos.com
>         
> However naxos.com, which has the same IP address, seems to work much
> better:

They don't have the same IP.  "www" has 101 as the last octet,
"naxos.com" has a 201 as the last octet.  My guess is that the entry
for "www" in their DNS is incorrect.

>         
>         $ host naxos.com
>         naxos.com has address 202.130.166.201
>         naxos.com mail is handled by 10 email.naxos.com.
>         naxos.com mail is handled by 20 postoffice.naxos.com.
>         $ ping naxos.com
>         PING naxos.com (202.130.166.201) 56(84) bytes of data.
>         64 bytes from 202.130.166.201: icmp_seq=0 ttl=235 time=192 ms
>         64 bytes from 202.130.166.201: icmp_seq=1 ttl=235 time=192 ms
>         ...
>         
>         
> I'm running FC4 with the latest upgrades on an AMD x86-64 system, all
> latest upgrades installed.  My other system (which has no trouble) is
> FC4, slightly out of date, on an i686 system.
> 
> What's going on?  Does my computer have a virus?

No, naxos' DNS entries are incorrect.

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