Re: [Marxism] Fw: Terror network busted in Iran

[Bill O'Connor <billyoc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Haines Brown <brownh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> Richard Menec <menecraj@xxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>> > *Readers informed CLG that Comcast was blocking access to
>> > tehrantimes.com, so this article was reposted so that people can
>> > access it. --LRP
>> 
>> RoadRunner here in Manhattan would also prefer nobody read the
>> Tehran Times.  For future reference, you can always access a blocked
>> web site with Google's cache:
>> 
>> http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=168823
>
> I tried to access the tehranTimes website, but also failed. However, I
> found I could readily access the paper by using its IP address:
> http://62.193.18.228/Index.asp. 
>
> After fooling around to figure out what was going on, using ping and
> nslookup successfully for both IP address and domain name, I began to
> be able to access the papaer by its domain name. Conclusion: The
> paper's servers are being overwhelmed by all the interest in it.
>
> I'd like to know how the OP concluded that ComCast was blocking
> access to the paper rather than its just being a victim of server
> overload. Can he use the paper's IP address to access it?   

Ah, I see I was wrong about RoadRunner, http://tehrantimes.com is working fine
here this morning.  

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