[Joe Tomasone <joe@xxxxxxxx>]

It was up just now, at 10:45am USA Eastern time.  I was able to
download Winpcap successfully.

        - Joe


At 09:30 AM 8/6/2001, you wrote:
> I was just at the site last week and it was up, but appears down now.
> I tried pinging "netgroup-serv.polito.it" and it resolved to 130.192.28.4
> but there was no reply, even when pinging the numerical IP. A traceroute
> got as far as "ny-mi" in garr.net (15th hop), "to-mi" (16th hop) and
> "polito-rc.to.garr.net" (17th hop) ( I am guessing that TO and MI are Torino
> and Milano, BTW). So, it looks to me as if DNS somewhere is resolving the
> IP okay but that the actual IP or it's local network is not up. -Bob F
>
>
> > > I have been trying to download the winpcap.dll but have failed in
> > > contacting the server http://netgroup-serv.polito.it/winpcap/ I seems as
> > > if it is a dead link......
> >
> > Unless something has happened *very* recently, it's not a dead link,
> > i.e., it's not as if the site no longer exists.
> >
> >       http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q3.8
> >
> > "Q 3.8: When I try to download the WinPcap driver and library, I can't
> > get to the WinPcap Web site.
> >
> > A: As is the case with all Web sites, that site won't necessarily always
> > be accessible; the server may be down due to a problem or down for
> > maintenance, or there may be a networking problem between you and the
> > server.  You should try again later."
> >
> > The netgroup site occasionally seems to become unavailable.  Every time
> > that's happened, it's become available later.
> >
> > Right now, the problems seem to be
> >
> >       1) a possible network problem getting to the Politecnico di
> >          Torino's name servers (I can't ping either
> >          "leonardo.polito.it" or "giove.polito.it", although this
> >          could conceivably be due to ICMP Echoes getting blocked - and
> >          I'm not getting any DNS replies back from them);
> >
> >       2) "dns2.nic.it" giving the all-too-common "I'm not an
> >           authority for that domain, but here's what information I
> >           have, including a list of authoritative servers which, err,
> >           umm, includes me" reply for the "polito.it" domain;
> >
> > so it looks as if the site is just temporarily unavailable due to a DNS
> > server glitch at the Politecnico.
> >
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