"Daniel J. Boone" wrote:
JYA is temporarily dead online due to work load in the DC area, near the armageddon push button, which is located, in case you give a, out on Route 7 disguised as FAA Leesburg.
We paid a surprise Sunday morning visit to the CIA back entrance, got surrounded by HMMVs and spiffy guards with hands on guns, interrogated by a swell looking Ms. Security who ran our Duncan Frissell ID card through the master file, idled for 1/2 hour observing gaps in the maginot line, and then received a heartfelt thanks for cooperating, Duncan, wink.
Mrs. Frissell hissed bitch as we serpentined the Jersey barriers back out the way in.
It's worth observing that this prose style is literally inimitable. I'd say its authentication value (in terms of persuasively suggesting that the entity long known as JYA authored this also) is at least as strong as a long-used PGP signature would be.
Others, having more faith in the abilities of federally-employed creative writers, might I suppose reasonably differ.
It seems to be strange that he wrote at <jya@pipeline.com>, an address which is also given on his web page, but ping pipeline.com doesn't work. M. K. Shen
It seems to be strange that he wrote at <jya@pipeline.com>, an address which is also given on his web page, but ping pipeline.com doesn't work.
Sorry to resort to ad hominem, but you're a technological imbecile. There is this magic thing in DNS called "MX record". Read about it. ===== end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com
On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Morlock Elloi wrote:
It seems to be strange that he wrote at <jya@pipeline.com>, an address which is also given on his web page, but ping pipeline.com doesn't work.
Sorry to resort to ad hominem, but you're a technological imbecile.
There is this magic thing in DNS called "MX record". Read about it.
Not to mention the practice of blocking ICMP at the firewall, which would result in pings not working. -MW-
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It seems to be strange that he wrote at <jya@pipeline.com>, an address which is also given on his web page, but ping pipeline.com doesn't work.
Very strange. Pipeline has a bunch of MX records, mx01.pipeline.com etc., which we expected. Pinging mx12.pipeline.com works fine. www.pipeline.com is www.mindspring.net, which is no surprise. What's strange is that there are three nameservers for pipeline.com, at least according to the nslookup that I did. Two of them are itchy and scratchy.mindspring.net, which sound reasonable, but the first one is burdell.cc.gatech.edu. Burdell accepts pings, smtp, and DNS queries, but not telnet or http. postmaster@burdell does expand, and is running procmail....
At 12:38 PM 10/06/2002 +0200, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
It seems to be strange that he wrote at <jya@pipeline.com>, an address which is also given on his web page, but ping pipeline.com doesn't work.
Lots of machines don't accept pings anymore, either for security reasons or whatever. That's independent of whether those names accept email, or whether you can find MX records for them. In particular, most big ISPs have multiple machines accepting mail; if you wanted to ping, you'd have to try box1.bigisp.com, box2.bigisp.com, box3.bigisp.com, ... Pipeline was in the big-ISP business, and I suspect they've been eaten enough times that pipeline is just an alias on a big email server farm.
On Sun, 06 Oct 2002 12:38:34 +0200, Mok-Kong Shen said:
It seems to be strange that he wrote at <jya@pipeline.com>, an address which is also given on his web page, but ping pipeline.com doesn't work.
If you mean ping (1) you should read some Internet basics first. $ host -t mx pipeline.com pipeline.com MX 5 mx05.pipeline.com pipeline.com MX 5 mx06.pipeline.com pipeline.com MX 5 mx07.pipeline.com pipeline.com MX 5 mx08.pipeline.com pipeline.com MX 5 mx09.pipeline.com pipeline.com MX 5 mx10.pipeline.com pipeline.com MX 5 mx11.pipeline.com pipeline.com MX 5 mx12.pipeline.com pipeline.com MX 5 mx00.pipeline.com pipeline.com MX 5 mx01.pipeline.com pipeline.com MX 5 mx02.pipeline.com pipeline.com MX 5 mx03.pipeline.com pipeline.com MX 5 mx04.pipeline.com Salam-Shalom, Werner
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