Metafilter.com without the www won't load for me.

October 9, 2004 9:24 AM

http://metafilter.com times out for me, while http://www.metafilter.com works with no problem. Is it me or MetaFilter?
posted by willnot to Bugs at 9:24 AM (8 comments total)

both work fine, although apparently the voting cookie can't tell they are the same domain.
posted by quonsar at 10:01 AM on October 9, 2004

I'm getting "Connection Failure" when I try to load www.metafilter.com or metafilter.com on not-logged-in browsers.
posted by MiG at 3:48 PM on October 9, 2004

Technically, the DNS RFC says that if metafilter.com doesn't resolve, DNS is set up correctly. Or so I'm told. It's too long for me to read it.

Of course, nobody likes it that way so everyone ignores it.
posted by shepd at 1:03 AM on October 11, 2004

Name servers treat metafilter.com and www.metafilter.com like separate domains, so the most likely explanation would be a problem there, rather than one on your end, willnot.

Both are resolving for me here.
posted by rcade at 5:08 AM on October 11, 2004

MiG is right. I deleted cookies on one of my machines, and now I can't get to metafilter.com www.metafilter.com or metatalk.metafilter.com. I get a "Connection Failure" message.

For some reason, if you aren't logged in, you can't read MeFi right now.
posted by willnot at 7:54 AM on October 11, 2004

Oh man I just tried that. Yeah, connection failure on a non-logged in machine. wtf?
posted by Peter H at 2:40 PM on October 11, 2004

del.icio.us is out, too. CONSPIRACY!!!

(recklessly chews enough gum to make a hat out of the wrappers)

But seriously, both are out. Anyone know the what what?
posted by Peter H at 2:43 PM on October 11, 2004

Well this is strange, I am able to bring up Askmefi, but not metatalk or regular ol mefi on an unlogged in machine.
posted by Peter H at 2:47 PM on October 11, 2004