usFIRST.org Down?

[Mark McLeod]

No problems here.
I've been there a few times this morning and tried it again just now.

[Tottanka]

it's good here too...

[EricH]

Fine here.

Reminds me of a few days ago when I couldn't access CD (and only CD) for some reason. Then I heard that one of the other dorms had very limited Internet access...school network problem!

[chris31]

I cannot get to it right now either but there could be many reasons for this.

[EHaskins]

fine here

[basicxman]

its all good here, internet filter?

[Andrew Bates]

Well it works now for me, I was in my school's computer lab so I guess it was just a random occurrence, never had that problem before.

[synth3tk]

Fine for me right now. I noticed you're in Michigan, and using a school network. There's not even a hint of any news release yet, but this thread indicates there could be something going on behind the scenes out here...

[Joe Ross]

make sure you use www.usfirst.org and not just usfirst.org.

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

make sure you use www.usfirst.org and not just usfirst.org.

I still cannot understand why FIRST doesn't have a DNS record for www like 99.9% of other websites out there.

[whytheheckme]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

I still cannot understand why FIRST doesn't have a DNS record for www like 99.9% of other websites out there.

Me neither. It really bugs the heck outta me.

Jacob

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

I still cannot understand why FIRST doesn't have a DNS record for www like 99.9% of other websites out there.

I don't understand what you mean. There is a DNS record for www.usfirst.org (it resolves to IP address 155.212.10.234). That's why http://www.usfirst.org/ works.

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

I don't understand what you mean. There is a DNS record for www.usfirst.org (it resolves to IP address 155.212.10.234). That's why http://www.usfirst.org/ works.

I was in a hurry and misspoke earlier. It is just http://usfirst.org/ (without the WWW) that doesn't work. They need a DNS record for without the www. (like most other websites out there). Note, Firefox is a smart browser and will resolve it anyway, but it takes longer and IE (6. idk about 7) does not.