Closed Bug 214346 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

strange name resolving behaviour

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Other
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

CLOSED INVALID

People

(Reporter: Stappers, Assigned: hewitt)

References

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030714 Debian/1.4-2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030714 Debian/1.4-2

When trying to visit http://www.alioth.debian.org/projects/skami
I see "Resolving host alioth.debian.org..."
After some time the alert box "alioth.debian.org" could not be found.
Please check the name and try again."

Where is the "www." gone?

On the same computer I can do this:
$ host www.alioth.debian.org
www.alioth.debian.org   A       192.87.30.200
$ host alioth.debian.org
Nameserver not responding
alioth.debian.org A record not found, try again
$


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See "Details"
Actual Results:  
The alert box

Expected Results:  
Display the contens of the site.
I don't think this is a mozilla issue. The site seems to be working now, and
note that the URL still changes to http://alioth.debian.org/projects/skami,
stripping the www.

This is, I think, a function of the webserver (at Debian) presenting what it
considers to be the canonical form of its URL. Nothing whatsoever to do with
mozilla.

Or am I missing something?
% wget -s -O ~/foo.html 'http://www.alioth.debian.org/projects/skami'
--18:32:46--  http://www.alioth.debian.org/projects/skami
           => `/home/bzbarsky/foo.html'
Resolving www.alioth.debian.org... done.
Connecting to www.alioth.debian.org[192.87.30.200]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/skami [following]

So the host just sends a redirect, and the hostname it redirects to was not
resolving.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
So it looks like that the name resolving problem is outside Mozilla.
 ---
Did checking of name servers.
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On the name server computer '/etc/init.d/bind stop', '/etc/init.d/bind start'
and the problem was gone.
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Thank you.
I will close the bug.
Status: RESOLVED → CLOSED
Product: Core → SeaMonkey
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