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.
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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@math.ucr.edu