OT - Computing question!

Thanks for responding.

Your computer clock appears to be wrong!

Your message is shown here as being posted at 11:27 am - but at the moments it's only around 10:30!! (GMT)

HTH

As you are using a Mac, you should have cUrl already installed. Try this from terminal.

uups, posted it 06:27 PYST (Paraguay Summer Time) that`s UTC/GMT-3

the header says ...S-5 Grrrrr. Seems that my emailer and/or WinXP or the connection didn`t work correct for DST on the southern hemisphere. Don`t know if I can debug that.

I will ship this approx at 08:30 Local time, after trying to manipulate the header time offset. Hopfully in the right direction.

Saludos Wolfgang

Same with me from Paraguay :o WinXPprof SP3, Firefox 9.0.1

Don`t know either.

Saludos Wolfgang

Sorta. Try traceroute. From your header, it appears that you're using a Mac. Go to the shell, er... terminal window and run: traceroute

Bluehost.com is a web hosting provider that has probably hundreds of web sites hidden behind this one IP address including dreamservermore.com.

However, the exact target IP of

Oops. Looks like something just changed while I was testing. Whois, nslookup, ping, and now traceroute all claim that dreamservermore.com does not exist. I think they just pulled the plug on this domain. It previously pointed to

Anyway, what I'm guessing was happening was that whomever was in control of the domain, was using URL redirection to point to other web sites. This is a feature provided by almost all domain registry services.

It's intentional. For example, I have that running on one of my domains. If you go to:

you get redirected to:

Note that the browser shows the target URL. I could also wrap it inside an HTML frame, and have the browser show the original URL. If you try to use traceroute to locate

You really should post your question in a networking newsgroup, not a repair newsgroup.

I forgot the requisite Wikipedia link:

Thanks for your help Jeff. I was reading at the wiki link earlier today.

I posted here because I've been reading many of the discussions and like the way the folk here conduct themselves. That was after I'd asked about TV aerial problems some weeks ago and got some very helpful responses.

I'll come back and study what you said in detail tomorrow - it's late here and I'm rather tired. I'm interested in the fact that 'someone' wasn't happy with you using the domain!

I found it (dreamservermore.com) here btw -

"Click *here* and read the pathetic personal homepage of Chung Y. Chow."

Cheers

Dave

It works. However, I had to update curl from 7.16.4 to 7.23.1 on my iMac G5 PPC in order to get it to display properly. Using my redirected web server:

Nice. It shows the redirection. Thanks for the hint.

C:\tmp>graburl -h