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For some strange reason I cannot access the site. It is as if my ISP has it blacklisted(rogers). I get the same firefox response as if my internet was disconnected. I also tried wget using the url provided in the comments but that does not work as well.

I am stuck relying on google cache and cannot see the pdf. Any tips?

wget http://hackermonthly.com/hackermonthly-issue1.pdf --14:52:00-- http://hackermonthly.com/hackermonthly-issue1.pdf => `hackermonthly-issue1.pdf' Resolving hackermonthly.com... failed: Name or service not known.

ping hackermonthly.com ping: unknown host hackermonthly.com

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It's at 72.18.130.89, but that won't get you far -- they seem to be running Apache multiheaded and haven't bothered with a default site for requests coming in by IP only.

I'm not seeing DNS for hackermonthly.com on my home ADSL2 connection (via Be Broadband), but my colo box (hosted by Bytemark) is resolving it fine. As I'm in the UK, this is definitely not Rogers in Canada -- it's some kind of DNS screw-up.

NB: It resolved okay via Be about 10 hours ago (10am BST) when I grabbed a copy this morning. I suspect something's come adrift since then.

Same DNS problem from Optus in Australia, though server requiring hostname is readily solved by entering details in hosts.txt

Hopefully it's working now. The site is hosted on WPWebHost (a company I founded and sold) and they seemed to have a slight hitch few hours ago.

wget http://72.18.130.89/hackermonthly-issue1.pdf '--header=HOST: hackermonthly.com'

I was surprised to find that OS X doesn't come with wget, but it does include curl:

curl http://72.18.130.89/hackermonthly-issue1.pdf --header 'HOST: hackermonthly.com' > hackermonthly-issue1.pdf

for future reference you don't have to use curl like that you can just do

curl -O http://72.18.130.89/hackermonthly-issue1.pdf --header 'HOST: hackermonthly.com'

to achieve the same result

I figured the command line option existed but why bother looking it up in a man page and then memorizing it when > works perfectly?

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