Comments on: Rodong Sinmun launches website

By: Martyn Williams

Martyn Williams — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:56:45 +0000

It looks like the DNS update that added the name has been slow to propagate throughout the Internet.

I’ve had the same problems, but temporarily got around it by switching to Google’s DNS service.

For the last 24 hours I’ve had problems accessing the page even with the correct DNS. Naenara was also affected (it’s on the same server), so I think they had some kind of problem there.

By: S

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 08:46:15 +0000

Edit: OpenDNS at least finds the IP, but when requesting the website via HTTP I get the error: „You tried to visit rodong.rep.kp, which is not loading.“

However, calling the page via different on-page proxies (anonymizer websites) worked. Any ideas?

By: S

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 08:44:01 +0000

With German DNS servers (I tried about six, also from freedom of information organisations) the website seems to be down, wondering if they are being censored or if there is another problem (usually the DNS servers should send the request further if they do not know it…). Some answered „no answer“, most answered „NXDOMAIN“

With OpenDNS servers, it works fine.

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