Re: http://cisco.com 403 Forbidden

[Mike Tancsa <mike () sentex net>]

At 12:07 PM 1/3/2007, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:39:40 +0000
> Simon Waters <simonw () zynet net> wrote:
> >
> > On Wednesday 03 January 2007 16:29, you wrote:
> > > On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, James Baldwin wrote:
> > > > Anyone else getting a 403 Forbidden when trying to access
> > > > http://cisco.com?
> [...]
> > Working fine here. Resolves to 198.133.219.25
>
> What does DNS resolution have to do with 403 web errors?

Because it might resolve to several different IP addresses or is in 
the process of changing to a different IP and only one host might 
have been impacted by whatever was going on at the time.

e.g. if someone says www.microsoft.com is not working, it might help 
to know what IP they were talking to at the time...

[smtp1]# host www.microsoft.com
www.microsoft.com is an alias for toggle.www.ms.akadns.net.
toggle.www.ms.akadns.net is an alias for g.www.ms.akadns.net.
g.www.ms.akadns.net is an alias for lb1.www.ms.akadns.net.
lb1.www.ms.akadns.net has address 207.46.199.30
lb1.www.ms.akadns.net has address 207.46.225.60
lb1.www.ms.akadns.net has address 207.46.18.30
lb1.www.ms.akadns.net has address 207.46.19.30
lb1.www.ms.akadns.net has address 207.46.19.60
lb1.www.ms.akadns.net has address 207.46.20.30
lb1.www.ms.akadns.net has address 207.46.20.60
lb1.www.ms.akadns.net has address 207.46.198.60
[smtp1]#

        ---Mike