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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:00:02 +0200
From: Stegozor <stegozor@gmail.com>
To: gopher@complete.org
Subject: [gopher] Re: Active ?
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On 8/17/06, JumpJet Mailbox <jumpjetinfo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   Neither gopher://alessandro.route-add.net  or gopher://gopher.rp.spb.su are accessable from Port 70.  This is probably due to these Gopher servers being removed from Internet service.
>
>   The error you are experiencing appears to NOT be a issue with your Gopher software, but an issue with your DNS server.  As you state:
>   "When I go to a site I get mixed messages on unreachable links, one is pretty instantaneous telling me that the site is not available, the second hangs the gopher program for 2-3 minutes before telling me that it cannot connect to the host.".
>
>   The "instantaneous" failure is because there is no longer a physical IP address associated with the server you are trying to reach, so the DNS server sends back a quick response.  The failure that APPEARS to "hang" is because there is still an IP address associated with the unreachable servers (in the case of gopher://alessandro.route-add.net it is 192.182.210.150, and the case of gopher://gopher.rp.spb.su it is 81.3.164.16 ), and the DNS server spends a considerable amount of time trying to reach the associated pysical IP address.

Thanks for the explanation, but there's something I still don't
understand and that seems to be a bug in Gopher client to me: when I
press control-c during an attempt to contact these servers, I can't
take back the control of the program, the beep (from the buzzer)
becomes weird and repetitive and I have to close the terminal window.
I tried the same links with SeaMonkey, simply pressing escape stops
the transaction.