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Stew Benedict wrote:
> OK folks.  FHS 2.3 is currently stuggling with a couple of controversial
> proposals.  They would like Mandrake's opinion, as part of what FHS tries
> to do is formalize current convention.  United Linux based distros use
> these currently.  My take is Red Hat is against them.  I'm not sure how
> to reply with a formal Mandrake position, but perhaps posting here will
> give me more of a feel on how the community views these proposals.
>

There seems to be a dns problem. I am seeing some issues with respect to
other people resolving our DNS too (but I tested from klama and it seemd
ok), so I don't know if it's more wide-spread and what the cause is ...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] buchan]$ host bugs.freestandards.org
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
[EMAIL PROTECTED] buchan]$ dig freestandards.org ns

; <<>> DiG 9.2.3rc2 <<>> freestandards.org ns
;; global options:  printcmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
[EMAIL PROTECTED] buchan]$ whois freestandards.org
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Domain ID:D26146162-LROR
Domain Name:FREESTANDARDS.ORG
Created On:02-May-2000 00:58:53 UTC
Last Updated On:30-Sep-2003 16:00:20 UTC
Expiration Date:02-May-2005 00:58:53 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:R34-LROR
Status:OK
Registrant ID:34-C
Registrant Name:SEE SPONSORING REGISTRAR
Registrant Street1:Whois Server:whois.dotster.com
Registrant Street2:Referral URL:www.dotster.com/help/whois
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Registrant Country:CA
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Name Server:NS2.KERNEL.ORG
Name Server:NS1.KERNEL.ORG



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Registrant:
   Pathname Solutions
   4390 Albany Drive
   San Jose, CA 95129
   US

   Registrar: DOTSTER
   Domain Name: FREESTANDARDS.ORG
      Created on: 02-MAY-00
      Expires on: 02-MAY-05
      Last Updated on: 30-SEP-03

   Administrative, Technical Contact:
      Quinlan, Daniel  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
      Pathname Solutions
      4390 Albany Drive
      San Jose, CA  95129
      US
      (408) 919-3000


   Domain servers in listed order:
      NS2.KERNEL.ORG
      NS1.KERNEL.ORG

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] buchan]$ dig @ns2.kernel.org freestandards.org ns

; <<>> DiG 9.2.3rc2 <<>> @ns2.kernel.org freestandards.org ns
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 4221
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;freestandards.org.             IN      NS

;; Query time: 188 msec
;; SERVER: 204.152.189.113#53(ns2.kernel.org)
;; WHEN: Wed Nov  5 16:37:36 2003
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 35

[EMAIL PROTECTED] buchan]$ dig @ns1.kernel.org freestandards.org ns

; <<>> DiG 9.2.3rc2 <<>> @ns1.kernel.org freestandards.org ns
;; global options:  printcmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached


ns1.kernel.org seems to not be responding, and ns2.kernel.org doens't
know about freestandards.org (although it does know about pathname.com
and kernel.org)

Regards,
Buchan

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