[Nix-dev] Nixos.org down

[Ben Franksen]

Ben Franksen wrote:
> Eelco Dolstra wrote:
>> On 15/04/14 18:38, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
>> 
>>> On 15/04/14 18:27, Colin Putney wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hope this right place to post this. I don't speak German, but it looks
>>>> like the domain is being blocked, for some reason.
>>> 
>>> Yeah, problem with the registrar. Should be fixed soon...
>> 
>> Where "soon" might be tomorrow, unfortunately.  In the meantime, if you
>> need Nix stuff right now, you can use the following /etc/hosts entries:
>> 
>>   54.217.220.47 nixos.org tarball.nixos.org releases.nixos.org
>>   131.180.119.77 hydra.nixos.org
> 
> Many thanks for providing a work-around, but that doesn't work here (with
> firefox). Do I have to restart/reload something so this has an effect? (I
> even tried to enter the IP address directly in firefox, no use).
> 
> Sorry for my ignorance...

Never mind, this seems to be a quirk of (my (ubuntu) version of) firefox, 
probably to protect lusers from... whatever.

It works with e.g. konqueror.

Cheers
Ben
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