FEMA web site

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Carl Malamud <carl () media org>
Date: September 15, 2005 9:22:11 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: FEMA web site


I really can't stand this ... after yesterday's notes to IP about  
misconfigured
mail servers (Craig Partridge rightfully pointed out that just having  
an A
record is fine though there are definitely some huge issues with  
running a
sadly out-of-date sendmail) and misconfigured web servers, I thought  
I'd do
a little investigation.

I ran a series of link validity and other checks on the fema web  
site, and
there are definitely a very large number of broken links or internal  
system
errors.  But, the part that I just can't believe is this:

1. Go to http://www.fema.gov/index2.shtm (their main page after the  
Katrina
   "splash page."
2. Click on "contact us" at the bottom, which is a link to
   http://www.fema.gov/feedback/

For at least twenty-four hours, from several different hosts and  
OS's, I've
been getting this:

trystero:~ carl$ wget --server-response http://www.fema.gov/feedback/
--09:03:08--  http://www.fema.gov/feedback/
           => `index.html'
Connecting to www.fema.gov:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2 Server: Apache
3 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
4 Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:03:09 GMT
5 Connection: close
6
09:03:08 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

Bleah.

Carl


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