Subj : Re: Server troubles??
To   : Digital Man
From : Finnigann
Date : Tue Jul 11 2006 04:42 am

-=> Without Duece's permission:  Digital Man wrote to Finnigann <=-

 DM>   Re: Re: Server troubles??
 DM>   By: Finnigann to Digital Man on Mon Jul 10 2006 11:00 pm

 >
 >  But if that's so, why do the links work for me?

 DM> If "for me" means, from the same computer or from another computer on
 DM> your local network, the answer should be obvious: because your ISP
 DM> isn't involved in your local network.

 >  http://bnb.synchro.net and bnb.dtdns.net both work fine here...

 DM> I'm not sure where exactly "here" is.

 From the same machine as the BBS sits on.

 But doesn't the page call have to go out to a DNS machine and then back
 to me? Unless there is a HOSTS file, that is. (There isn't one)

 If I were using localhost as an address, I wouldn't expect it to even
 need to be connected to the internet at all. (But that's not the case
 either)

 Clearly something is at work here that I don't fully understand.

 >  I sent Charter a message asking if the BBS ports are indeed closed and
 >  if so, would they open them.

 DM> They would know. :-)     

 Not always... It's one of them Right-hand Left-hand sort of companies.

 I did get an acknowledgment from them... so far.




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