[Wikipedia-l] Re: New server online?

[Toby Bartels]

Brion Vibber wrote:

>Toby Bartels wrote:

>>When I go to www.wikipedia.com using IE,
>>I get a snapshot that was apparently taken shortly after 10:48.
[..]
>>Well, I just deleted all of my temporary Internet files for IE.
>>Now it's working!  But I still wonder what was going on.

>To hazard a guess, IE was preserving the IP address for the former
>www.wikipedia.com (130.94.122.195) in some sort of cache. The new
>www.wikipedia.com (130.94.122.197) has the new live server.

When I try it at 130.94.122.195, I get an error page with a Nupedia logo.
But if you copied down the wrong IP #, then that seems reasonable.

A suggestion then:
Somebody with the appropriate access should go to the original IP #
and edit the main page so that it tells people that the IP # changed,
and urge them to take appropriate corrective action.
There must be others besides me thinking that the site is still down.


-- Toby Bartels
   toby+wikipedia-l at math.ucr.edu