U. S. Navy websites - where did they go?

[William Hughes]

Both chinfo.navy.mil and history.navy.mil appear to be offline; I keep getting
DNS errors when I try to access them. Did the Navy change their URLs?

[Tex Houston]

"William Hughes" > wrote in message
...
> Both chinfo.navy.mil and history.navy.mil appear to be offline; I keep
getting
> DNS errors when I try to access them. Did the Navy change their URLs?
>
Try http://www.navy.mil/

http://www.news.navy.mil/index.asp

Regards,

Tex

[Thomas Schoene]

William Hughes wrote:
> Both chinfo.navy.mil and history.navy.mil appear to be offline; I
> keep getting DNS errors when I try to access them. Did the Navy
> change their URLs?

All still working from here (with and without the "www" in front of them).
Sounds like a problem at your ISP.

--
Tom Schoene Replace "invalid" with "net" to e-mail
"Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when
wrong to be put right." - Senator Carl Schurz, 1872

[William Hughes]

On Sun, 2 May 2004 13:36:25 -0600, in rec.aviation.military.naval "Tex Houston"
> wrote:

>
> "William Hughes" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Both chinfo.navy.mil and history.navy.mil appear to be offline; I keep
> getting
> > DNS errors when I try to access them. Did the Navy change their URLs?
> >
> Try http://www.navy.mil/
>
> http://www.news.navy.mil/index.asp

The links at www.navy.mil still reference chinfo.navy.mil, unfortunately.

news.navy.mil is good for current events, but I need to access the history files
at the other sites.

Thanks for trying.

[William Hughes]

On Sun, 02 May 2004 21:31:00 GMT, in rec.aviation.military.naval "Thomas
Schoene" > wrote:

> William Hughes wrote:
> > Both chinfo.navy.mil and history.navy.mil appear to be offline; I
> > keep getting DNS errors when I try to access them. Did the Navy
> > change their URLs?
>
> All still working from here (with and without the "www" in front of them).
> Sounds like a problem at your ISP.

Possibly, and I have sent an email to the helpdesk. But would that also affect
links to chinfo.navy.mil from the navy.mil homepage?

[Ogden Johnson III]

William Hughes > wrote:

>"Thomas Schoene" > wrote:

>> William Hughes wrote:

>> > Both chinfo.navy.mil and history.navy.mil appear to be offline; I
>> > keep getting DNS errors when I try to access them. Did the Navy
>> > change their URLs?

>> All still working from here (with and without the "www" in front of them).
>> Sounds like a problem at your ISP.

>Possibly, and I have sent an email to the helpdesk. But would that also affect
>links to chinfo.navy.mil from the navy.mil homepage?

The http://www.navy.mil site worked fine for me just now, as did
every one of the dozen links I tried off of it, including links
to pages on the chinfo and history sites.

Whatever your problem may be, it doesn't seem to have been
generated at the navy.mil sites. Do you use DHCP? Have you
tried a reset/renewal of the DHCP lease?
--
OJ III
[Email sent to Yahoo address is burned before reading.
Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast.]

[Andrew C. Toppan]

On Sun, 02 May 2004 12:25:49 -0500, William Hughes >
wrote:

>Both chinfo.navy.mil and history.navy.mil appear to be offline; I keep getting
>DNS errors when I try to access them. Did the Navy change their URLs?

They work fine. The problem is at your end.

--
Andrew Toppan --- --- "I speak only for myself"
"Haze Gray & Underway" - Naval History, DANFS, World Navies Today,
Photo Features, Military FAQs, and more - http://www.hazegray.org/

[Andrew C. Toppan]

On Sun, 02 May 2004 17:04:57 -0500, William Hughes >
wrote:

>Possibly, and I have sent an email to the helpdesk. But would that also affect
>links to chinfo.navy.mil from the navy.mil homepage?

Yes. chinfo.navy.mil is still chinfo.navy.mil, whether you type it or
click on the link.

--
Andrew Toppan --- --- "I speak only for myself"
"Haze Gray & Underway" - Naval History, DANFS, World Navies Today,
Photo Features, Military FAQs, and more - http://www.hazegray.org/

[Thomas Schoene]

William Hughes wrote:
> On Sun, 02 May 2004 21:31:00 GMT, in rec.aviation.military.naval
> "Thomas Schoene" > wrote:
>> All still working from here (with and without the "www" in front of
>> them). Sounds like a problem at your ISP.
>
> Possibly, and I have sent an email to the helpdesk. But would that
> also affect links to chinfo.navy.mil from the navy.mil homepage?

Quite possibly, if your ISP is using a flawed DNS lookup list that doesn't
have the right IP address for chinfo.navy.mil.

--
Tom Schoene Replace "invalid" with "net" to e-mail
"Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when
wrong to be put right." - Senator Carl Schurz, 1872

[William Hughes]

On Sun, 02 May 2004 18:38:02 -0400, in rec.aviation.military.naval Ogden Johnson
III > wrote:
> William Hughes > wrote:
> >"Thomas Schoene" > wrote:
> >> William Hughes wrote:
>
> >> > Both chinfo.navy.mil and history.navy.mil appear to be offline; I
> >> > keep getting DNS errors when I try to access them. Did the Navy
> >> > change their URLs?
>
> >> All still working from here (with and without the "www" in front of them).
> >> Sounds like a problem at your ISP.
>
> >Possibly, and I have sent an email to the helpdesk. But would that also affect
> >links to chinfo.navy.mil from the navy.mil homepage?
>
> The http://www.navy.mil site worked fine for me just now, as did
> every one of the dozen links I tried off of it, including links
> to pages on the chinfo and history sites.
>
> Whatever your problem may be, it doesn't seem to have been
> generated at the navy.mil sites. Do you use DHCP? Have you
> tried a reset/renewal of the DHCP lease?

Huh? Ogden, I'm a dial-up user at texas.net. I don't speak "DHCP", whatever that
is.

[Ogden Johnson III]

William Hughes > wrote:

>Ogden Johnson III > wrote:

>> William Hughes > wrote:

>> Whatever your problem may be, it doesn't seem to have been
>> generated at the navy.mil sites. Do you use DHCP? Have you
>> tried a reset/renewal of the DHCP lease?

>Huh? Ogden, I'm a dial-up user at texas.net. I don't speak "DHCP", whatever that
>is.

OK, on dial-up, you essentially get what DHCP does every time you
dial-up. The settings in your DUN TCP/IP protocol are probably
set to automagically obtain your IP, DNS Server IPs, Gateway,
etc. from your ISP.

For those of us with cable/DSL/etc. connections, Dynamic Host
Control Protocol is the automated way of getting the IPs for your
DNS servers, etc., set regularly and automagically by your ISP,
rather than having those IPs permanently set in the software
configuration of TCP/IP settings of your NIC card. Same end
effect.
--
OJ III
[Email sent to Yahoo address is burned before reading.
Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast.]

[William Hughes]

On Sun, 02 May 2004 18:45:01 -0400, in rec.aviation.military.naval Andrew C.
Toppan > wrote:

> On Sun, 02 May 2004 12:25:49 -0500, William Hughes >
> wrote:
>
> >Both chinfo.navy.mil and history.navy.mil appear to be offline; I keep getting
> >DNS errors when I try to access them. Did the Navy change their URLs?
>
> They work fine. The problem is at your end.

Yeah. The sites are accessible from the computers at work, hooked up to SBC.
Texas.Net continues to deny that there is a problem - tells me to contact
someone at navy.mil. Of course, that is the problem - I _can't_ get through.
Time to start looking for a new ISP, again.