I use FC11 and just observed problems with name server resolution to, say, de.wikipedia.org (many other wikipedia addresses too). Tried 2 different (german) locations using 2 different (german) name servers: [bergmann@T60 ~]$ host -a de.wikipedia.org Trying "de.wikipedia.org" ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 33227 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;de.wikipedia.org. IN ANY ;; ANSWER SECTION: de.wikipedia.org. 331 IN CNAME rr.wikimedia.org. Received 61 bytes from 193.189.244.225#53 in 128 ms [bergmann@T60 ~]$ host rr.wikimedia.org Host rr.wikimedia.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) === other location === [bergmann@ptpp53 ~]$ host -a de.wikipedia.org Trying "de.wikipedia.org" ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 19010 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;de.wikipedia.org. IN ANY ;; ANSWER SECTION: de.wikipedia.org. 1802 IN CNAME rr.wikimedia.org. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: wikipedia.org. 63159 IN NS ns2.wikimedia.org. wikipedia.org. 63159 IN NS ns0.wikimedia.org. wikipedia.org. 63159 IN NS ns1.wikimedia.org. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns0.wikimedia.org. 1540 IN A 208.80.152.130 ns1.wikimedia.org. 1540 IN A 208.80.152.142 ns2.wikimedia.org. 1540 IN A 91.198.174.4 Received 163 bytes from 141.30.66.1#53 in 1 ms [bergmann@T60 ~]$ ssh ptpp53.phy.tu-dresden.de Last login: Wed Mar 24 20:16:10 2010 from 82.113.121.37 [bergmann@ptpp53 ~]$ host rr.wikimedia.org Host rr.wikimedia.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) === trying the wikimedia name server === [bergmann@T60 ~]$ host de.wikipedia.org 208.80.152.130 Using domain server: Name: 208.80.152.130 Address: 208.80.152.130#53 Aliases: de.wikipedia.org is an alias for rr.wikimedia.org. rr.wikimedia.org is an alias for rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org. rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org has address 208.80.152.2 === entering a line into /etc/hosts === 208.80.152.2 de.wikipedia.org And now I can view http://de.wikipedia.org! But others still unreachable (e.g http://en.wikipedia.org). What is wrong? Is there an issue with Fedora 11, with the german name servers or with wikipedia? Joerg

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Temlakos&lt;temlakos(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > The issue is with Wikipedia. I attempted to retrieve one of their images > and got repeated "can't find server" errors. You're the first person to > confirm to me that Wikipedia is having a hiccup. > > Temlakos > -- > test mailing list > test(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test > > I just went to wikipedia for something too and I see it as down too :/

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Eric Lake&lt;etank(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Temlakos&lt;temlakos(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > >> The issue is with Wikipedia. I attempted to retrieve one of their images >> and got repeated "can't find server" errors. You're the first person to >> confirm to me that Wikipedia is having a hiccup. >> >> Temlakos >> -- >> test mailing list >> test(a)lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe: >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test >> >> > I just went to wikipedia for something too and I see it as down too :/ > I don't know if they just fixed it or where you are connecting from but I can connect just fine - from northern UK. Possibly a dns server somewhere is down - perhaps on your isp?