On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 06:20:56AM +0900, Sean Armstrong wrote:
> On another note, the only tutorials I have seen are the Ruby Guide 
> (which is rather quaint) and The Pragmatic Programmer.

... speaking of the latter, is anybody else having difficulty accessing the
rubycentral.com domain?

Looks like there are no NS records for it in the root, although "whois" says
its not due to expire until Feb 2003. Strange.

Cheers,

Brian.

$ dig @a.gtld-servers.net. rubycentral.com. ns

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> @a.gtld-servers.net. rubycentral.com. ns 
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 4
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      rubycentral.com, type = NS, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
com.                    1D IN SOA       A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.com. (
                                        2002110401      ; serial
                                        30M             ; refresh
                                        15M             ; retry
                                        1W              ; expiry
                                        1D )            ; minimum


;; Total query time: 77 msec
;; FROM: xxx to SERVER: a.gtld-servers.net.  192.5.6.30
;; WHEN: Tue Nov  5 10:11:02 2002
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 33  rcvd: 106