Probably the webhost doesn't want anyone to ping it. Have you tried to ping
CNN.com?
Rick

Brendan Moran wrote:

> I didn't get the original post for the
>
> [OT]: Parachuting from space Russiam style
>
> thread, so I went to try and look it up in the PICList archive, only to find
> that I can't access the server.  What I want to know is whether the problem
> is between here and there or if it's the server that's down.
>
> And I got an error I didn't expect when trying to PING www.piclist.com
>
> >C:\>ping http://www.piclist.com
> >Bad IP address http://www.piclist.com.
>
> Someone forget to renew the domain?
>
> --Brendan
>
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