[Elecraft] Has this link been changed?

[Fred Jensen]

On 12/28/2013 5:16 PM, Bill W2BLC wrote:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/elecraft@mailman.qth.net/maillist.html
>
> The link has remained unchanged for a very long time on my desktop. May
> be a problem with ISP - that is the only thing that would explain why
> some get it and others do not.

The link on your desktop is simply a URL.  All that works in the 
Internet are IP addresses.  There is a translation between URL's and 
real IP addresses, it happens in the Domain Name Servers around the 
world.  An update used to come out once a day, don't know now, but the 
DNS talk to each other and the update propagates around the world.

While still employed, we were doing a data center move for Wells Fargo 
Bank.  While in Phoenix at a bunch of meetings, my pager [that tells you 
how long ago] was giving me really strange and unlikely phone numbers. 
I had a new Palm Pilot 0.0, I started putting them into the Find screen, 
and Mike [Network Chief] in San Francisco at Wells Fargo came up.

Turned out, wellsfargo.com had disappeared from the I'net [generally a 
bad day if you're a worldwide banker].  My employer had recently 
purchased Network Solutions Inc., at that time the only I'net domain 
registrar and updater of the DNS network, and as luck would have it, one 
of my colleagues happened to be in N. VA at NS.  I called him, and they 
fixed it with that night's update.  Took 2 days to propagate around the 
planet.

I doubt it's your ISP.  Give it a little time before blaming them.

73,

Fred K6DGW
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