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|    Oli to Alexey Fayans    |
|    Binkd 1.1a112 binaries for Win32, Win64,    |
|    02 Feb 21 09:17:01    |
      MSGID: 2:280/464.47 60190a7c       REPLY: 2:5030/1997@fidonet 6018f8ee       PID: JamNNTPd/Linux 1       CHRS: LATIN-1 2       TZUTC: 0100       TID: CrashMail II/Linux 1.7       Alexey wrote (2021-02-02):               AF> Hello Michael!               AF> On Mon, 01 Feb 2021 at 22:12 +0300, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:               MV>>>> http://download.binkd.org        WV>>> My browser can't reach this website a.t.m.?        MD>> $ host download.binkd.org        MD>> download.binkd.org has address 46.4.85.143        MD>> download.binkd.org has IPv6 address 2a01:4f8:141:630c::1000               AF> You were just lucky. Out of 4 DNS servers only one works, so it's 25%        AF> change to get IP address resolved.              That's the reason it often doesn't work the first time I try.              $ dig download.binkd.org @NS1.VLM.RU       ; connection timed out; no servers could be reached                     $ dig download.binkd.org @NS2.VLM.RU       ; connection timed out; no servers could be reached                     $ dig download.binkd.org @NS3.VLM.RU       ; connection timed out; no servers could be reached                     $ dig download.binkd.org @NS0.VLM.RU       ; ANSWER SECTION:       download.binkd.org. 3600 IN A 46.4.85.143               AF> I already brought this up and was told it was done intentionally for some        AF> weird reason.              It's an official download site for binkd. Could we call it intentionally       stupid?              ---        * Origin: . (2:280/464.47)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 103/705 105/81 120/340 123/131 124/5016 129/305       SEEN-BY: 154/10 203/0 221/0 226/30 227/114 229/101 200 424 426 550       SEEN-BY: 229/664 1016 1017 240/2100 5138 5411 5832 5853 6309 249/109       SEEN-BY: 249/206 307 317 280/464 5003 5555 288/100 292/854 8125 310/31       SEEN-BY: 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/120 460/58 633/280 712/848       SEEN-BY: 770/1 2432/390 2452/250 2454/119       PATH: 280/464 240/5832 229/426           |
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