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  • Subject: Re: ads.midrange.com
  • From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 17:27:38 -0500

Sorry, the archive server is *NOT* an AS400 and thus the database needed to 
be restarted :(

It should be responding properly now.

david

At 02:50 PM 8/9/2001, you wrote:
>I know almost nothing about how web pages work or what you call the part
>of the URL that comes right after the http:// and before the first
>period.  Normally this is "www", but in some cases it isn't.  When
>trying to access any of the *.midrange.com site, and in particular
>http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/, it seems that the browser gets
>stuck with:
>
>      Connect: Host ads.midrange.com contacted.  Waiting for reply.
>
>which sits there for about two minutes, doing seemingly nothing.  Once
>the "ads." message disappears, the rest of the page loads fairly
>quickly.  I'm guessing that the ads.midrange.com is actually hitting
>something external to David's server to fetch ads?  Is there any way to
>speed up this page, either on my end or on David's?  Absolutely no
>offense intended David!  I'm just not a good waiter!  ;-)
>
>Dan Bale
>IT - AS/400
>Handleman Company
>248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
>D.Bale@Handleman.com
>   Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
>   (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
>
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