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[OM] Re: TOPE 24: 2 more entries added to the gallery

Subject: [OM] Re: TOPE 24: 2 more entries added to the gallery
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:48:52 -0800
I have had Verizon for several years and have had no problems  
accessing the TOPE gallery until now. If it were a change at Verizon  
I think I would have problems at more that this one site.



Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA




On Nov 12, 2005, at 9:01 AM, Jay Drew wrote:

>
>>> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>>> Works for me with Netscape 7, Firefox and IE.
>>>
>> It's not the browser. It's ISP/site server related, but at which end,
>> who knows.
>>
>> Moose
>
>
> My take on this is that it may be a DNS issue.  I attempted  
> multiple times
> to email my entry to Olaf's Millennic address and it always failed,  
> with the
> ISP (Comcast in this case) stating that the destination was not  
> valid in
> DNS.  I did some detective work and found that the DNS servers I  
> point to
> (from the AT&T days of ownership) had no problems looking up the  
> millennics
> domain, but the DNS servers of Comcast complained the answer for  
> the lookup
> was non-authoritative.  My browser is using the AT&T dns servers,  
> with no
> problem.  I am assuming that Comcast's mail servers are using  
> Comcast DNS
> servers and hurl (techie talk for dislike) with the answer they get.
>
> The problem may be at the millennics end and at local ISP - the far  
> end not
> providing a authoritative answer and the near end refusing to deal  
> with a
> non-authoritative answer.
>
> I looked up the mailing addresses for the DNS servers for the  
> Millennics and
> Comcast and sent them a detailed message of my theory, and the COMCAST
> message bounced.  I never heard from the Millennics DNS admin, and  
> finally
> got through to Comcast via the web and did convince them that it  
> was an
> email issue at their end, not a browser at my end.
>
> I believe it to still be broken.
>
> I used the email address I saw on a posting by Olafo to get my Tope  
> 24 entry
> posted.
>
> I guess we could abandon the modern stuff and return to things like  
> snail
> mail, horse and buggy, FILM.
>
>
> Jay Drew
>
>
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