Rick Moen via luv-talk <luv-talk(a)luv.asn.au> wrote:
It's not at your end. The httpd is either not
there at all or not
answering.
$ host lca2013.linux.org.au
lca2013.linux.org.au has address 192.55.98.186
lca2013.linux.org.au mail is handled by 10 team.linux.conf.au.
$ telnet lca2013.linux.org.au 80
Trying 192.55.98.186...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out
$
Thanks, Rick.
FWIW, I'm in Sint Maarten / Saint Martin in the
Caribbean, not that it
matters. ;->
Indeed. It's Princeton, NJ for me, over Comcast, who appear to have occasional
issues routing packets to their destinations, which is all that I'm actually
paying them to do. I also tried it at my host on Linode, so I suspected the
problem was at the other end.