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color="#0000FF">I've had no trouble using the link. Website
comes up fine. Maybe the problem is between Korea and
overseas.</font></blockquote>
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<div>Okay, here the technology boogy-woogy:</div>
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<div>Actually, the site violates RFC standards because it only has one
name server listed (<font face="Courier New" size="-3"
color="#000000">peace.unesco.or.kr 211.217.107.253</font>) -- it
should have at least two. But this isn't even the cause of the
problem. It isn't possible to ping the nameserver IP from the U.S. --
there is a DNS error BEFORE the connection goes to Korea, here in
California (198.32.176.102), as you can see here (for those hard
headed onces who really want to know -);</div>
<div>http://samspade.org/t/trace?a=211.217.107.253</div>
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<div>Why would that be? Some Californian ISP switch board operator
killed this harmless UNESCO IP. But he wasn't drunk.</div>
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<div>The cause is a quite familiar one -):: SPAM</div>
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<div>This IP (again we talk about the name server IP for the server on
which "ekoreajournal.net" is hosted (211.217.107.253), is
listed as spammer IP in OSIRUSSOFT and other anti-SPAM databases that
ISPs world-wide use to reduce incoming SPAM.</div>
<div>You can see them all right here:</div>
<div>http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=211.217.107.253</div>
<div>(look for the RED entries!)</div>
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<div>Any connection to "ekoreajournal.net" is therefore
blocked for anyone who is connecting to the Internet using an ISP that
utilizes one of these anti-SPAM databases, independent of the
geographical location.</div>
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<div>Frank</div>
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