[Gllug] OT: what's up with groklaw ?

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Fri, October 29, 2010 09:15, Robert Newson wrote:
> On 27/10/10 20:14, salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> I 've noticed something very strange for the past week or so. When I try
>> to view http://www.groklaw.net in firefox, I just get an RHEL apache
>> test
>> page. At first I thought the site was down for maintenance, but entering
>> the site on google and viewing their cache shows the site apparently up
>> and running !
>>
>> If I ping the site, here is what I see:
>>
>> $ ping www.groklaw.net
>> PING groklaw.ibiblio.org (152.46.7.105) 56(84) bytes of data.
>> 64 bytes from groklaw.ibiblio.org (152.46.7.105): icmp_req=1 ttl=51
>> time=187 ms
>>
>> Going to any other page on the site but index.php I get a Forbidden
>> error.
>>
>> Is anyone else seeing the test page or is it just me ?
> One thing I've noticed is that when a shared library that Firefox is
> using, or Firefox itself, gets updated unless Firefox is restarted weird
> things can happen.
>
> Have you recently updated anything on your system - recently I've had
> two updates to the glibc installed on my machines and weird things
> started to happen until I rebooted (updating glibc needs a reboot).
>

Not really, but like I said it seems to have been due to the default
iptables settings in ubuntu 10.10.

Salsaman.



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