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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?   
      
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