[BNomic-Public] Re: [Bnomic-private] The Daily Recognizer (Wednesday evening)

[Daniel Lepage dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Quoth Baron von Skippy,

>>>>> When you make spoon-business a public forum, is that because you think
>>>> Joel
>>>>> will be back shortly, or because you just don't like using
>>>> bnomic-private?
>>>>> What I mean is, is Joel coming back soon?
>>>> 
>>>> Joel's already back, in a sense.
>>>> 
>>>> His computer is back online, and if you connect to its IP address, you
>> can
>>>> get the nomic.net Web site, and all that other good stuff. It's just a
>>>> matter of waiting for the DNS to get caught up.
>>>> 
>>>> ...dave
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> -[[Well, some things are back, and some aren't... spoon-discuss and
>>> spoon-business are not working as far as I can tell.]]
>> 
>> Isn't that what Dave means by 'waiting for the DNS to get caught up'? The
>> thing doesn't know where Joel is yet.
>> 
>> --
>> Wonko
>> 
> -*blank stare* Maybe. What's a DNS?-
> 

I don't remember what the acronym stands for - something Network Server or
something like that. But as I understand it, when you ask for, say,
cornell.edu, the DNS is the thingy that knows what to connect you to, that
is, knows where the actual cornell.edu sever is. If it doesn't know where
your server is, it looks around, querying other servers, etc. This is what
happens during that long pause between when you hit enter and when explorer
tells you that it can't find nomic.net. If neither the DNS nor any of its
buddies can find the server, it tells you that it can't be found.

Or at least, that's how I understand it. I'm not an expert in this field, so
anybody that actually knows what I'm talking about, please correct me if
I've said something really stupid.

-- 
Wonko