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.gov Sites Are Offline
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#13https://www.faa.gov is up
For the longest time nasa.gov required a www subdomain to work. ( https://web.archive.org/web/20120326151831/http://blogs.nasa... ) > The answer goes back to the early 1990s, when the Internet existed – but the World Wide Web did not. NASA was on the Net very early in its history, and the nasa.gov Domain Name Servers (DNS) – the Internet's version of a phone book (OK, online directory) – handled bulletin board system…
Indeed, faa.gov doesn't have an A record in DNS at the moment.
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#14Here's a lackluster article about it: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-admin-take-down-most-...
I think the source is misunderstanding changes that are definitely happening.
They're scrubbing sites of specific topics (with a broad brush!), but not taking them entirely down. https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/31/nx...
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#15"created: July 17, 2017,
karma: 45"
Do you feel this stunt was worth it?
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#16https://www.faa.gov is up
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#17"created: July 17, 2017, karma: 45" Do you feel this stunt was worth it?
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#18https://www.census.gov/ also semidown?
It seems to be pointing at something attempting to visualize JIRA activity, but with a lot of content-security-policy warnings?
Seems like someone screwed up some load balancer settings.
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#19https://www.faa.gov is up
For the longest time nasa.gov required a www subdomain to work. ( https://web.archive.org/web/20120326151831/http://blogs.nasa... ) > The answer goes back to the early 1990s, when the Internet existed – but the World Wide Web did not. NASA was on the Net very early in its history, and the nasa.gov Domain Name Servers (DNS) – the Internet's version of a phone book (OK, online directory) – handled bulletin board system…
> domain servers still do not forward users looking for nasa.gov to www.nasa.gov.
Domain servers would never do this. Redirection happens through the HTTP protocol or associated mechanisms not through DNS.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
For the longest time nasa.gov required a www subdomain to work. ( https://web.archive.org/web/20120326151831/http://blogs.nasa... ) > The answer goes back to the early 1990s, when the Internet existed – but the World Wide Web did not. NASA was on the Net very early in its history, and the nasa.gov Domain Name Servers (DNS) – the Internet's version of a phone book (OK, online directory) – handled bulletin board system…
> domain servers still do not forward users looking for nasa.gov to www.nasa.gov. Domain servers would never do this. Redirection happens through the HTTP protocol or associated mechanisms not through DNS.
That's probably a finer detailed point than NASA.gov's public blog typically needs to worry about.