[tex-live] www.tug.org unreachable

Denis Bitouzé dbitouze at wanadoo.fr
Tue Dec 19 07:09:22 CET 2017


Le 18/12/17 à 23h05, Zdenek Wagner a écrit :

> 2017-12-18 22:10 GMT+01:00 Denis Bitouzé <dbitouze at wanadoo.fr>:
>
>> Le 18/12/17 à 21h44, Rick Graham a écrit :
>>
>> > ... I'm also curious to know if the TOR Browser
>> > <https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en> works for you,
>> > since it will most assuredly take a different path, etc., to
>> > www.tug.org.
>>
>> Bingo! That works :)
>>
>> I guess we can conclude neither my router nor my configuration are the
>> culprits...
>>
>
> Yes, your computer gets and IP address form DNS, your home router can
> most probably connect to your ISP only and the next routers try to
> find the way, so the problem lies most probably even outside your
> ISP. Tor is an anymizing service, so your computer then connects to
> another server which finds the way to tug.org from somewhere else.

I see.
-- 
Denis



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