[Wikipedia-l] Re: New server online?

Sun Jul 21 09:59:24 UTC 2002

On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Brion VIBBER wrote:

>> 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.

Browsers have a tendency to do their own dns lookups (to avoid blocking
(remember netscape 3 on Linux)) and to cache the results. This can be
especially frustrating when trying to debug dns round-robin setups. :)

-- Daniel