29th Nov 2010 - Ascom standard site down?

[Manav (Yugant)]

Is it just me or is the ascom-standards.org site down?

[troypiggo (Troy)]

I've been having this problem for a while. Anyone else able to see or not see the ASCOM site at the moment?

[TrevorW]

http://ascom-standards.org/

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Yes, that's the site, but I get "server not found" errors.

[TrevorW]

works for me fine

clear your cache and internet browsing history etc

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by TrevorW

works for me fine

clear your cache and internet browsing history etc

Might be a matter of luck. Depending on which nameserver you get you may or may not get the DNS record.

ns1.coxmail.com and ns2.coxmail.com don't work.

ns.dc3.com. does

IIRC they've had that problem with coxmail before.

Try it repeatedly any you might succeed. If all else fails, at the moment:

ascom-standards.org. 172800 IN A 216.119.134.194

You could put that in your hosts file.

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Thought it could be a DNS issue. Works on my iPhone but not on MacBook, same network.

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by troypiggo

Thought it could be a DNS issue. Works on my iPhone but not on MacBook, same network.

That doesn't mean they use the same DNS algorithm. I run DNS on one of my Linux boxes and it caches replies for the rest of the network. All requests go to the appropriate authoritative nameserver (not my ISP). BIND round robins requests so after no more than 3 attempts ASCOM will work, until the cache times out when it will go back to hunting again.

Windows, being the brain dead thing it is, doesn't round robin, so it will repeat the same broken request repeatedly. MacOS, being essentially BSD, probably should round robin, but you'd need a Mac guru to confirm that. Maybe the iPhone sent its query to a different nameserver to the Mac.

If you are allowing your ISP to provide the DNS all bets are off.