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Re: odd behavior from cygwin.com



 On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Stephen Adler wrote: 

> [adler@basement00 ~]$ nslookup cygwin.com 
> ;; reply from unexpected source: 68.87.71.226#53, expected 68.87.73.242#53 
> ;; Warning: ID mismatch: expected ID 31756, got 9974 
> Server:         68.87.71.226 
> Address:        68.87.71.226#53 

It looks like you queried against one Comcast nameserver, and got a 
response from a different one.  Perhaps a system with multiple IP 
addresses which was a bit confused? 

> Non-authoritative answer: 
> Name:   cygwin.com 
> Address: 209.132.176.174 
> 

My nameserver gives the same answer, so the problem does not appear to be 
malicious. 

> ------------------ 
> 
> Guys, I got the above response from looking up cygwin.com. I'm trying to 
> download the software, but the website seems to be down. After poking around 
> a bit, it looks like there is a dns problem. But the above error message 
> gives me the creeps. Should I worry about it? 

The website seems to be up for me.  Are you still unable to get to it? 

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