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Cool. I just redirected http://slow.com http://slow.com to https://fast.com https://fast.com .

by CyrusL 10y ago

Flammy 10y ago
Heh. If you don't have plans for it they'd probably be willing to buy it from you.
albasha 10y ago
I am not sure they would appreciate that as at any moment when there will be traffic on slow.com you may change it to something else.
- beachstartup 10y ago
  that's kind of how dns works, yeah.
  - chinathrow 10y ago
    It's a 301 directly to https://fast.com https://fast.com. No DNS involved.
    - beachstartup 10y ago
      last time i checked fast.com and slow.com are ... domain names.
      - kylec 10y ago
        They are, but DNS is not used to redirect slow.com to fast.com. They both resolve to different IP addresses. It's only when the browser requests "http://slow.com" http://slow.com" from the slow.com server that it is told to redirect to https://fast.com/ https://fast.com/. This is an HTTP redirect, and has nothing to do with DNS.
        beachstartup 10y ago
        i'm not talking about a fucking redirect, THE GUY OWNS SLOW.COM, it's his god damn traffic, he can do what he wants with it. THAT'S HOW DNS WORKS. i'm talking about ownership, not the fucking http protocol.
        kylec 10y ago
        Then you should be saying "that's how domain ownership works", not "that's how DNS works". Domain ownership != DNS. Also, next time everyone seems to misunderstand what you're saying, try to consider that you might not be saying the right thing.
        beachstartup 10y ago
        judging from the number of positive points on my original comment plenty of people understood me. you're in the vocal minority who has trouble interpreting linguistic context.
        biot 10y ago
        The context was "you may change it", where "it" is the redirect from slow.com to something other than fast.com. But he wouldn't be changing any DNS entry as he's still resolving the hostname to the same IP address; instead he changes the http redirect to some other site. No DNS entries need to be modified as part of "you may change it". I'm not sure why, on a site called Hacker News, that you're surprised on being called out for a technically imprecise statement. Instead of digging in your heels with bogus justifications that you're rightfully being downvoted into oblivion over, why not thank those who replied and offered a more technically accurate explanation?
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        beachstartup 10y ago
        i'm not being downvoted to oblivion. if i were, i would have deleted my comment for fear of getting hellbanned. what happened is you just made that up, in your head, and assumed it to be true. just like the words you put into my mouth earlier. LET ME ASK YOU THIS: even if it were refering to an http redirect, who REALLY has control of where slow.com redirects to? the guy who owns the domain. he can point it to any server or cname he wants, and then, maybe redirect browsers somewhere else, or just serve whatever content he wants. it could change day to fucking day, or hour to hour. _because that's how dns works_ this entire thread is ridiculous. this is called 'pedantry', is usually misguided, and it very rarely leads anywhere productive. but you knew that, since you seem to be an expert in it.
    - hueving 10y ago
      Only for people that have already visited it and haven't cleared their browser cache.
chirau 10y ago
Hey buddy, do you own slow.com? If you do, could you send me an email t e n d i [at] outlook.com
cmdrfred 10y ago
If I owned that I'd point it at comcast.com, but that's just me.
- spike021 10y ago
  For what it's worth, I've had Comcast nearly 4 years and I'd say 80% of the time, at least, the speed is great and I get more than what I pay for. Occasionally at really odd times (mostly middle of the night) I'll get a disconnection from service, but that hasn't happened in a long time, and maybe twice in the past 4 months my speed has dropped pretty sharply. But for the latter, when compared to the service I've gotten the entire time, it's just a blip. The customer service is absolutely awful though, unless by some odd luck I can get forwarded to their corporate offices in the US.
  - jcrawfordor 10y ago
    I work from home, which means I'm hyper-sensitive to my internet quality. I also sometimes work through the night to early in the morning. I've found that my Comcast connection here in San Francisco fairly reliably drops for a few minutes every day at around 2-3 am. Then it comes back and works find again. I've thought about calling them about this before, but I'm not sure that I want to spend a couple hours on the phone convincing them it's a real issue.
    - okbake 10y ago
      I live near Atlanta and I get the same issue around the same time. It's not reliably every night (thankfully, since I'm on almost every night) but it is at least once or twice a week, sometimes more, for 15-45 minutes. I can see in the modem logs where I'm losing my connection to them and the house phone also gets disconnected. I'm in the same boat as you where making the phone call feels like a huge hassle. But it's interesting seeing a few other people with this same problem, maybe I should call them after all.
      - cdowns 10y ago
zodPod 10y ago
Nice!
Reedx 10y ago
Fun domain. You could use it to rank the slowest providers. Sort of like the razzies, but for ISPs. :)

Cool. I just redirected http://slow.com http://slow.com to https://fast.com https://fast.com .

by CyrusL 10y ago

Cool. I just redirected http://slow.com http://slow.com to https://fast.com https://fast.com .

Flammy 10y ago

Heh. If you don't have plans for it they'd probably be willing to buy it from you.

albasha 10y ago

I am not sure they would appreciate that as at any moment when there will be traffic on slow.com you may change it to something else.

beachstartup 10y ago
that's kind of how dns works, yeah.
- chinathrow 10y ago
  It's a 301 directly to https://fast.com https://fast.com. No DNS involved.
  - beachstartup 10y ago
    last time i checked fast.com and slow.com are ... domain names.
    - kylec 10y ago
      They are, but DNS is not used to redirect slow.com to fast.com. They both resolve to different IP addresses. It's only when the browser requests "http://slow.com" http://slow.com" from the slow.com server that it is told to redirect to https://fast.com/ https://fast.com/. This is an HTTP redirect, and has nothing to do with DNS.
      - beachstartup 10y ago
        i'm not talking about a fucking redirect, THE GUY OWNS SLOW.COM, it's his god damn traffic, he can do what he wants with it. THAT'S HOW DNS WORKS. i'm talking about ownership, not the fucking http protocol.
        kylec 10y ago
        Then you should be saying "that's how domain ownership works", not "that's how DNS works". Domain ownership != DNS. Also, next time everyone seems to misunderstand what you're saying, try to consider that you might not be saying the right thing.
        beachstartup 10y ago
        judging from the number of positive points on my original comment plenty of people understood me. you're in the vocal minority who has trouble interpreting linguistic context.
        biot 10y ago
        The context was "you may change it", where "it" is the redirect from slow.com to something other than fast.com. But he wouldn't be changing any DNS entry as he's still resolving the hostname to the same IP address; instead he changes the http redirect to some other site. No DNS entries need to be modified as part of "you may change it". I'm not sure why, on a site called Hacker News, that you're surprised on being called out for a technically imprecise statement. Instead of digging in your heels with bogus justifications that you're rightfully being downvoted into oblivion over, why not thank those who replied and offered a more technically accurate explanation?
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        beachstartup 10y ago
        i'm not being downvoted to oblivion. if i were, i would have deleted my comment for fear of getting hellbanned. what happened is you just made that up, in your head, and assumed it to be true. just like the words you put into my mouth earlier. LET ME ASK YOU THIS: even if it were refering to an http redirect, who REALLY has control of where slow.com redirects to? the guy who owns the domain. he can point it to any server or cname he wants, and then, maybe redirect browsers somewhere else, or just serve whatever content he wants. it could change day to fucking day, or hour to hour. _because that's how dns works_ this entire thread is ridiculous. this is called 'pedantry', is usually misguided, and it very rarely leads anywhere productive. but you knew that, since you seem to be an expert in it.
  - hueving 10y ago
    Only for people that have already visited it and haven't cleared their browser cache.

chirau 10y ago

Hey buddy, do you own slow.com? If you do, could you send me an email t e n d i [at] outlook.com

cmdrfred 10y ago

If I owned that I'd point it at comcast.com, but that's just me.

spike021 10y ago
For what it's worth, I've had Comcast nearly 4 years and I'd say 80% of the time, at least, the speed is great and I get more than what I pay for. Occasionally at really odd times (mostly middle of the night) I'll get a disconnection from service, but that hasn't happened in a long time, and maybe twice in the past 4 months my speed has dropped pretty sharply. But for the latter, when compared to the service I've gotten the entire time, it's just a blip. The customer service is absolutely awful though, unless by some odd luck I can get forwarded to their corporate offices in the US.
- jcrawfordor 10y ago
  I work from home, which means I'm hyper-sensitive to my internet quality. I also sometimes work through the night to early in the morning. I've found that my Comcast connection here in San Francisco fairly reliably drops for a few minutes every day at around 2-3 am. Then it comes back and works find again. I've thought about calling them about this before, but I'm not sure that I want to spend a couple hours on the phone convincing them it's a real issue.
  - okbake 10y ago
    I live near Atlanta and I get the same issue around the same time. It's not reliably every night (thankfully, since I'm on almost every night) but it is at least once or twice a week, sometimes more, for 15-45 minutes. I can see in the modem logs where I'm losing my connection to them and the house phone also gets disconnected. I'm in the same boat as you where making the phone call feels like a huge hassle. But it's interesting seeing a few other people with this same problem, maybe I should call them after all.
    - cdowns 10y ago

zodPod 10y ago

Nice!

Reedx 10y ago

Fun domain. You could use it to rank the slowest providers. Sort of like the razzies, but for ISPs. :)