Toby Bartels wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
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.
130.94.122.195 is shared between a bunch of named virutal servers; you'll only get Wikipedia out of it if your browser tells the server that it's expecting to talk to "www.wikipedia.com".
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.
On that note; is there a way we can still (deliberately) access the read-only old wikipedia (eg, to check out reports of articles with missing edit histories)?
To answer my own question: yes! http://old.wikipedia.com/ (but you have to put the "old" in after every click; it's still configured to provide every link with the "www" in the URL. Lee, can you change that?)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)