[CS-FSLUG] HTTP GET request

[Davo Smith]

Or you could switch to an alternative DNS server, when yours is not
responding (e.g. opendns, google dns). You could also set up a local DNS
server in your house that would cache all the results for you.

Davo
On 1 Jan 2011 07:27, "Peter J. Vasquez Sr." <pjvasquez at baeyogin.com> wrote:
> Ed,
> I don't know of any client commands you could use, but the easiest
> method for testing sites would be adding the FQDN to public IP mapping
> on your computer's hosts file so it's resolved for you locally. Then,
> when you try and connect to a site you know is being hosted by a
> server, you get the effect of a functional DNS even when DNS might be
> flaky or unavailable. Hope this helps. Let me know if you were
> looking for something else, and I'll be glad to assist if able.
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Peter J. Vasquez Sr.
>
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Ed Hurst <ehurst at soulkiln.org> wrote:
>> I'm trying to read up on the background chatter we seldom see when we
>> surf the web. I understand enough of the GET request to do it manually
>> with telnet for simple things. For those of you who know more than me,
>> perhaps you can answer a hypothetical question.
>>
>> Pretend I'm having trouble with DNS, as indeed happens too often where I
>> live. Let's say I know the server IP address, and I know the domain
>> names hosted there I would like to see. In a graphical browser, telling
>> it to find a certain IP address doesn't usually serve much purpose,
>> since that's usually a generic landing page (frequently supplied by
>> Apache). Is there a way to formulate the URL in my graphical browser so
>> that it asks the server for a particular domain we know it's hosting
>> when DNS won't provide the translation?
>>
>> Ed Hurst
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