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In reply to the discussion: Can't access the Occupy site. Censored? [View all]Trekologer
(1,078 posts)39. Appears to be bad configuration, not nefariousness
The DNS name occupywallst.org resolves directly (a DNS "A" record) to 108.61.60.148, a IP addressed owned by ReliableServers, LLC.
$ dig occupywallst.org
; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> occupywallst.org
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 20316
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;occupywallst.org. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
occupywallst.org. 3600 IN A 108.61.60.148
;; Query time: 73 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.1.1#53(10.0.1.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Feb 25 20:34:19 2014
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 50
At the same time, the DNS name www.occupywallst.org is an alias (a DNS "CNAME" record) for pagespeed.googlehosted.com:
$ dig www.occupywallst.org
; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> www.occupywallst.org
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 8110
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.occupywallst.org. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.occupywallst.org. 5 IN CNAME pagespeed.googlehosted.com.
pagespeed.googlehosted.com. 241 IN A 173.194.74.121
;; Query time: 42 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.1.1#53(10.0.1.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Feb 25 20:37:28 2014
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 94
Google's Pagespeed is a website caching/content delivery network service. When one sets up Pagespeed for their website, Google caches the content of the website and then serves it from geographically-redundant data centers around the world. Based on the error returned by the Pagespeed, it seems that the Occupy folks have a configuration error.
Due to this, it seems that the reason http://occupywallst.org works while http://www.occupywallst.org does not is a configuration error, not purposely blocking.
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I can access it OK. Your ISP might be blocking it via their DNS server. I had that
RKP5637
Feb 2014
#3
Thanks for letting me know. Yes, this can be a problem sometimes, it's pretty easy
RKP5637
Feb 2014
#34
Really? I could have sworn I read that word somewhere in this thread...where was it?
Common Sense Party
Feb 2014
#12
It's a shock, isn't it? You open an old thread, and there's the writing of someone who isn't
msanthrope
Feb 2014
#50
Oh..I blame Ravitch herself for that debacle. She wasn't getting enough coverage during NBC's
msanthrope
Feb 2014
#52
That is a DUzy Prime in a thread of DUzys. It reminds me of the crop circles threads. nt
msanthrope
Feb 2014
#49
One of the Pros of Meta was that when people brought their jury decisions to it, their
msanthrope
Feb 2014
#57
The one jury result I complained about, I took to Admin. I called Glenn Greenwald a
msanthrope
Feb 2014
#59