[Wikipedia-l] Re: New server online?

Jan.Hidders hidders at uia.ua.ac.be
Mon Jul 22 11:54:37 UTC 2002


On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 08:56:09PM -0800, 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.
> [..]
> > But when I go to www.wikipedia.com using Netscape,
> > I get a new server, with all kinds of recent changes since 17:33:
> [..]
> > 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.

Actually I still have quite some problems under Windows XP with IE6.0. Even
if I tell it to refresh pages on every visit. I only can get the most recent
changes if I delete all my chache files. Does anybody else have this
problem?

-- Jan Hidders



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