This is what is returned from the proxy: ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.contextgarden.net/ The following error was encountered: * DNS name lookup failure The system returned: DNS Domain 'www.contextgarden.net' is invalid: Host not found (authoritative). This means that: The named host probably does not exist. Generated by squid/1.1.21@proxy.lambton.on.ca This is confirmed by the telnet connection I have tried that is not behind the proxy. I have also tried the ip address and it isn't even able to get there. Regards, Jeff On 3/10/06, Geert Stappers wrote:

On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 01:10:48AM -0500, Jeffrey Drake wrote:

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Is there any downloadable copy of the Context Garden site that is not on the Context Garden website?

At my school unfortunately we don't seem to be able to get through to context garden wiki. But trying to get into ConTeXt would likely be much smoother with access to the information.

Any help is appreciated.

I think you need help from the network administrator at _your_ side.

Start at least to describe what you (can) see from http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page

Mmm, that is allready the URL that you get after going to http://www.contextgarden.net

Could it be that you are behind (something like a) webproxy that can't cope with redirects???

Geert Stappers

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I have tried both directly with no success. -Jeff. On 3/10/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

Jeffrey Drake wrote:

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DNS Domain 'www.contextgarden.net' is invalid: Host not found (authoritative).

Yuo can try http://wiki.contextgarden.net directly, maybe?

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This means that:

The named host probably does not exist.

Some server along the way is lying, because the host definately does exist (it has IP 83.151.27.139), and its authoritive nameservers report the information correctly.

The authoritive nameservers are:

;; AUTHORITY SECTION: contextgarden.net. 38400 IN NS nameserv2.vollmarnet.com. contextgarden.net. 38400 IN NS nameserv2.vollmar.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: nameserv2.vollmarnet.com. 3600 IN A 83.151.25.2 nameserv2.vollmar.net. 2849 IN A 83.151.24.66

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I have no understanding of what the problem is to know even what to say to the network guys. Could you possibly put forth some hints about possibilities? Is it any coincidence that gnustep.org and contextgarden.net are both unaccessible? Regards, Jeff On 3/10/06, Geert Stappers wrote:

On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 01:04:17PM -0500, Jeffrey Drake wrote:

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On 3/10/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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Jeffrey Drake wrote:

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DNS Domain 'www.contextgarden.net' is invalid: Host not found (authoritative).

You can try http://wiki.contextgarden.net directly, maybe?

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This means that:

The named host probably does not exist.

Some server along the way is lying, because the host definately does exist (it has IP 83.151.27.139), and its authoritive nameservers report the information correctly.

I have tried both directly with no success.

Okay, noticed.

Next thing to do is that _you_ fix the network setup at _your end_

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You definitely haven't seen our network administators. The proxy we run: Generated by squid/1.1.21@proxy.lambton.on.ca This version is from 1997 at best. Not many people have a great deal of faith in them. - Jeff On 3/10/06, Geert Stappers wrote:

On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 03:04:04PM -0500, Jeffrey Drake wrote:

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On 3/10/06, Geert Stappers wrote:

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On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 01:04:17PM -0500, Jeffrey Drake wrote:

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On 3/10/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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Jeffrey Drake wrote:

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DNS Domain 'www.contextgarden.net' is invalid: Host not found (authoritative).

You can try http://wiki.contextgarden.net directly, maybe?

...

This means that:

The named host probably does not exist.

Some server along the way is lying, because the host definately does exist (it has IP 83.151.27.139), and its authoritive nameservers report the information correctly.

I have tried both directly with no success.

Okay, noticed.

Next thing to do is that _you_ fix the network setup at _your end_

I have no understanding of what the problem is to know even what to say to the network guys.

Print this E-mail and bring it to the network guys.

They will read this from top to bottom (people tend to read in that order) and will known what to do ( yes, I assume that a network administrator is worth it's money )

Cheers Geert Stappers -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/bottom-post.html

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hmm, on Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 04:22:19PM -0500, Jeffrey Drake said that

You definitely haven't seen our network administators. The proxy we run:

Generated by squid/1.1.21@proxy.lambton.on.ca

This version is from 1997 at best. Not many people have a great deal of faith in them.

there are quite a few vulnarabilities for squid this old, hint hint :) but a banner is only a banner, don't forget that. maybe your admins are much more trickier than anticipated :) indeed. a quick nmap reveals that the machine could very well be a fortress... -ok, so i presume you can't turn off the proxy... if you can access http://www.dnsstuff.com/ you could test that others are able to resolve the contextgarden.net domains. -i also presume that you tried to access using the ip number... -you could try to use the google cache... e.g. http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:2s7Cg-h7AcwJ:wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page+contextgarden&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1 but of course, this is a cache... so some stuff will be outdated. -you could try going thru a web anonymizer.. still, doens't make sense for me - filtering contextgarden.net there isn't even a dirty word in the url :) best of luck, -- the best way to keep your word is not to give it.