On Mo, 17 Apr 2023, cjsmall wrote:
> I have just found out that
vim.org is not accessible. Firefox reports: "We can’t connect to the server at
vim.org. Did you mean to go to
www.vim.org?"
>
> Indeed,
www.vim.org does allow access to the main site. When I attempt to ping
vim.org:
>
> # ping
vim.org
> ping:
vim.org: Name or service not known
>
> Pinging
www.vim.org attempts to work, but it never completes. Maybe you have ping blocked to avoid other networking problems.
>
> In any event, it looks like
vim.org is not properly forwarding to
www.vim.org and not properly DNS registered..
This has been discussed several times. TLDR: always use
www.vim.org
But this is a different issue than the one reported before, which was an
issue with the database connection at the
vim.org server side.
> [Note: I tried sending this message as a reply from my news reader and it disappeared - likely because I had the moderator address as
v...@vim.org. This post was made on Google Groups, so
> apologies if the duplicate ever shows up.]
I did not see any message in the moderation queue. Usually posting via a
NNTP News Reader does not work.
Best,
Chris
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