[OSM-talk] Www.openstreetmap.org Down?

[SomeoneElse]

John F. Eldredge wrote:
> IP address 192.168.1.1 <http://192.168.1.1> is a local, unroutable 
> address, meaning that it would have to be on your local LAN for you to 
> connect to it.

(for the benefit of those who haven't had the "pleasure" of dealing with 
DNS and naming on Windows)

That's the address of the DNS server - in this case likely an ADSL 
router or similar which in turn will make DNS requests of whoever your 
ISP has set as a DNS on its connection to them.

Cheers,

Andy

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