From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: control@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,
'Don Armstrong' <don@donarmstrong.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Bugs cannot be updated if they are archived?
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:00:31 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bpvf89uo.fsf@xemacs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <008501c95d7e$932b4a00$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com>
Drew Adams writes:
> I see. I thought that any followup email, especially from the bug
> filer, would be sufficient to keep a bug open (or reopen it).
Some systems do work that way. Some don't. "He who does the work
makes the decisions."
> I clicked that URL link in my mail client and got this message from my Web
> browser:
>
> "Internet Explorer cannot download server-control from
> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com. Internet Explorer was not able
> to open this Internet site. The requested site is either
> unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later."
>
> Where can I find the instructions for reopening etc. bugs? Is there
> another URL, which I might be able to get to?
That URL works fine with any browser, including IE I'm sure. That
message is highly unlikely to indicate a *browser* problem; it usually
means that the DNS lookup failed. This regularly happens to me on Mac
as well as Windows (with hosts that are provably up, simply by routing
around the Mac- or Windows-induced failures). My guess is that their
resolvers cache failures aggressively and apparently assume that if
you miss the first time and try again, it's user brain damage rather
than a temporary network glitch, so they don't bother to try the DNS.
> Oh - I see - that the URL works in Google Chrome. So your site
> appears to be limited to particular browsers (and excludes the most
> commonly used browser).
There's nothing Don can do about a nameservice failure in your system,
so I don't see any justification for your tone.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-14 8:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-13 21:37 Bugs cannot be updated if they are archived? Drew Adams
2008-12-13 23:08 ` Don Armstrong
2008-12-13 23:57 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-14 0:31 ` Don Armstrong
2008-12-14 1:09 ` Glenn Morris
2008-12-14 8:00 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
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