Re: Here's a puzzler

[Andrew Kelly <akelly corisweb org>]

Hi Rick, Bob, everybody,

On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 11:03 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 10:10 +0200, Andrew Kelly wrote:
> > Right, problem solved.
> > Pilot error.
> > 
> > Embarrassing.
> 
> Can you give us a hint as to what was wrong?  We're not trying to make
> you feel bad, but the list archive is checked by people on occasion and
> if you can post what you made a mistake on, it may prevent others from
> making the same mistake.

<ehem>
Errr.. yes.

As I was saying, these are new servers which I'm configuring, servers
which I haven't yet added to my nameservers. It turned out to be a
resolution problem, but not necessarily the one that Rick was pointing
me towards in his reply.

For the sake of saving me a lot of keystrokes during config, I had
simply added the new machines to the hosts file on my workstation and
had quite simply mistyped and never noticed the mistake.
I was attempting to contact IP addresses which didn't/don't exist.

Too many irons, too many fires.

> > Please return to your regularly scheduled programs.
> 
> Uh, I was watching reruns of Gilligan's Island.  I'd really rather not
> return to it.  :-)

I miss Gilligan, actually. Sometimes it's fun to watch an episode and
mentally superimpose Maynard over Gilligan. 
Dobie's Island, so to speak.

Dang, I'm old, ain't I?

Andy