[Coco] Gene, heads up again, I cannot access your site.

[Stephen H. Fischer]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gene heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Gene, heads up again, I cannot access your site.


> On Monday, August 22, 2011 12:04:33 AM Stephen H. Fischer did opine:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sorry Gene, no-go.
>>
> Humm.  So it works for me, and still does.  But no when your machine wants
> to access it because its your machine that would need that new entry in
> its
> hosts file.  That would work, but asking 300 people to edit their hosts
> file is asking an awful lot to those not fam with the *nix way of doing
> things.

I have seen the hosts file on my computer cause strange problems, I do not
wish to fool with it.

> Ok, does anyone know if I could set an environment var to that address,
> and
> then us it in the pages scripts, replacing the hard coded
> gene.homelinux.net string in the scripts with the env var's name?
>
>> Perhaps you can get someone to mirror your site or offer to host it
>> allowing you to control content.
>
> googlebot crawls in daily if not more often, but I expect it is having
> trouble with that ip resolution.
>
>> I have noted several persons that have offered to do this for other
>> persons on the CoCo list.
>>
>> Why fight an ISP that says don't do that anyway.
>
> Principle.  According to the common carrier rules & regs, they cannot
> block
> anything, even spam is a grey area.  But the blockage of incoming port 80,
> forcing one to put their web pages on the ISP's web server where they can
> be wrapped up in visual spam, is so universal the Friendly Candy Company
> ignores it, knowing full well that visual spam translates to a lower cost
> for a monthly account.  Since port 80 is blocked, and port 85 isn't
> reserved for a service that I have been able to find a reference to, I
> used
> it to get around the port 80 block.  I could just as easily have used the
> https port, 8080 I guess, and AFAIK they do not block that.  That however
> is not the instant problem.
>
> BTW, I assume the text portion of the page did load ok, but since all the
> links are broken, no images.  Correct?  Please check that as I'll possibly
> need that tomorrow while I yell at them about their dns servers.


I got something different this time, I tried http://204.111.25.156:85/gene/
and did get the words but no picture, just alt text.


BUT!!!!

http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/Genes-os9-stf

gives "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage".

I thought that I clicked on http://204.111.25.156:85/gene/ before and got 
"Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage".


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I wonder what would happen if you edited

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<p>I have copied some possibly useful things from the coco's hard drive to
<a
name="here" id="here"
href="http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/Genes-os9-stf"><span
style="color:#0000ff">here.</span></a></p>
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to a local folder name.

Something tells me that it might work.

But then could you download files?

SHF