about the osfaq

[gT]

Does it work? I always get 403 (forbidden) error. Although I could get into it with google, but that's very unelegant way. Am I missing something? ???

[AR (Away)]

The Wiki is at http://www.osdev.org/osfaq2/
Or you can click the banner at the top. I'd be inclined to believe you mistyped the URL.

[gT]

I certainly haven't misstyped the URL. I can not access from your given link or even the banner at the top. I always get 403 error. Not only I get it. There are guys on flatassembler.net forum that can't get into it. If you want, I can attach a screenshot of the 403 error.

[AR]

I'll take your word for it, but I don't see why you'd get a forbidden, what browser are you using, on what OS?

Does this work any better?
http://www.osdev.org/osfaq2/index.php/HomePage

[gT]

Win98 ;D the most stupid OS you have ever seen.

Internet explorer 6.0

Edit: forgot to say that link didn't help either.

[Candy]

Win98 ;D the most stupid OS you have ever seen.

Internet explorer 6.0

Edit: forgot to say that link didn't help either.

Might I suggest trying with a different browser to see if it's that problem?

[keeper]

its most likly windoze but you should try firefox, or opra if absolutly cannot install linux im getting an XML error with ie6, try another browser

ps. internet explorer just sux like that i recommend firefox, secure stable and fast

[Candy]

its most likly windoze but you should try firefox, or opra if absolutly cannot install linux im getting an XML error with ie6, try another browser

ps. internet explorer just sux like that i recommend firefox, secure stable and fast

There's nothing wrong with IE per se. Don't just tell somebody to change without a good argumentation, or without being careful.

Windows is not a cause.

The error I most commonly get with any browser on the forum is the GZ rewriter not being able to start because the url-rewriter had already put out an error.

Note, it should be openly accessible from anywhere, so you should have no problem accessing it with anything. If you do have a problem accessing it and can complain here, it's most likely our problem, not yours.

[gT]

It still doesn't work

I've tried to telnet to the osfaq, but still - 403 error.
Anyways, I might try that Firefox.

[mystran]

403 doesn't really sound like a client-side problem.

Maybe df can tell us what is wrong?

[Candy]

403 doesn't really sound like a client-side problem.

Maybe df can tell us what is wrong?

It might be an obscure browser-type-determination-bug in our wiki that we don't know of because nobody had that exact type of IE.

Then again, it might be something completely different. Still, it might help him get access...

As a temporary patch, you could use the google cache...

[gT]

I've tried Firefox. Nothing better. Maybe I'm banned in some way? (I wouldn't believe it, because I've never before tried to access these pages) I can't access www.mega-tokyo.com too.

[df]

your probably in one of the IP netblock bans.

[gT]

Why the heck should I be in some kind of ban? What's the story for banning me, or my whole ISP, or something even bigger?

[Brendan]

Hi,

Why the heck should I be in some kind of ban? What's the story for banning me, or my whole ISP, or something even bigger?

The problem is that a lot of ISP's have a smaller set of IP numbers that are shared by a larger number of customers. When a customer connects to the internet the internet provider dynamically assigns them one of the unused IP numbers.

Because of this a "bad" user can end up with a different IP number each time they connect to the internet, so to effectively prevent this bad user from messing things up you need to ban the entire domain (or all of the IP numbers that they could end up with when the connect to the internet).

This is probably what's happened. It's not that you have been banned personally, or that anyone thinks you've done anything wrong. It's just that one of the hundreds or thousands of users that use the same internet provider as you may have been banned sometime in the last N years...

I'm sure someone will look into this, although it could take a while - I waited about a 6 weeks in a similar situation with an online game several years ago (they had to search through a heap of log files to figure out why the range of IP numbers was blocked out to start with).

In the meantime you could try accessing the internet using a different internet connection (a friends house, the local library, school, etc) or try Google's caches..


Cheers,

Brendan