Folks, OK, so I took a step back yesterday and looked at the problem that I've been having: ht://Dig refusing to index my site. Gilles' discovery that he could index my site from his machine made me think that I was micro-analysing too much, and could use a little perspective. But my first conclusion was that ht://Dig was probably working fine, as there are thousands of satisfied users that haven't yet mentioned this problem. After a bit of hunting around, a few traceroutes and ping floods (the former was just for fun :), I came to an irritating conclusion: My host cannot consistantly and reliably sustain a connection to itself via port 80. Why this is the case, I don't know. The sysadmin says that it's an upstream problem. But the important thing is that ht://Dig will, theoretically, function now. Thanks to Gilles, Doug, Benson and Jaap for permitting me to waste their time, and to those of you that had my messages sitting in your inbox. :) I wish that I'd figured this out earlier, before you folks spent time on trying to get this working. If there's one bug that drives me nuts, it's an *inconsistent* bug. I'm glad to have nailed this one down, though, and I bet that ht://Dig will work perfectly from here on out. Best, Waldo +----------------------+ | WAM!design | | (804) 979-2980 | | Charlottesville, VA | | http://wamdesign.com | | "You're only as good | | as your geeks". | +----------------------+ ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the htdig mailing list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the single word "unsubscribe" in the SUBJECT of the message.
