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