[AusNOG] Government contact.

Wed Jan 8 16:58:33 EST 2014

Ahhhh the server recognises 'www.medicareaustralia.gov.au' but has a spit at 'medicareaustralia.gov.au'.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Goldman [mailto:joe at apcs.com.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, 8 January 2014 4:56 PM
To: Nathan Brookfield; Damien Gardner Jnr; AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Government contact.

Right this second - if I call medicare.gov.au, I get a Forbidden page, if I call medicareaustralia.gov.au, I get a redirect to humanservices.gov.au?

On 08/01/14 16:54, Nathan Brookfield wrote:
> medicareaustralia.gov.au is the same as medicare.gov.au and certainly does not actually work.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of 
> Joseph Goldman
> Sent: Wednesday, 8 January 2014 4:52 PM
> To: Damien Gardner Jnr; AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Government contact.
>
> interestingly enough - medicareaustralia.gov.au does work! and so does csa.gov.au - they all redirect over to humanservices.gov.au though, so that is definitely their main focus for everyone to use.
>
> On 08/01/14 16:49, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
>> Yeah, medicare.gov.au hasn't worked for a few months either..  I'd 
>> have thought they'd be a little more thorough in redirecting the old 
>> domains though - must be causing issues for non-techy customers with 
>> bookmarks, etc..
>>
>> --DG
>>
>>
>> On 8/01/2014 3:55 PM, Joseph Goldman wrote:
>>> I've noticed this for quite some time, it redirects to a 
>>> non-existant domain name.
>>>
>>> I believe it is part of their push where by they are mostly referred 
>>> to as 'human services' (http://www.humanservices.gov.au). I doubt it 
>>> was intentional to drop centrelink.gov.au though.
>>>
>>> On 08/01/14 15:49, David Walker wrote:
>>>> Hey.
>>>>
>>>> centrelink.gov.au appears to have left the web ...
>>>> Maybe someone with a .gov.au contact could elbow them.
>>>> I've tried the address in the SOA postmaster@ but no response so far.
>>>>
>>>> This is what I'm seeing ...
>>>>
>>>> curl --verbose centrelink.gov.au
>>>>
>>>> * About to connect() to centrelink.gov.au port 80 (#0)
>>>> *   Trying 203.13.0.101...
>>>> * connected
>>>> * Connected to centrelink.gov.au (203.13.0.101) port 80 (#0)
>>>>> GET / HTTP/1.1
>>>>> User-Agent: curl/7.28.0
>>>>> Host: centrelink.gov.au
>>>>> Accept: */*
>>>>>
>>>> < HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
>>>> < Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 03:33:00 GMT < Server: Apache < Location:
>>>> http://www.centrelink.gov.au/ < Content-Length: 237 < Content-Type:
>>>> text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 < <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD 
>>>> HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head>
>>>> <title>301 Moved Permanently</title> </head><body> <h1>Moved 
>>>> Permanently</h1> <p>The document has moved <a 
>>>> href="http://www.centrelink.gov.au/">here</a>.</p>
>>>> </body></html>
>>>> * Connection #0 to host centrelink.gov.au left intact
>>>> * Closing connection #0
>>>>
>>>> curl --verbose www.centrelink.gov.au
>>>> * About to connect() to www.centrelink.gov.au port 80 (#0)
>>>> *   Trying 203.13.0.101...
>>>> * connected
>>>> * Connected to www.centrelink.gov.au (203.13.0.101) port 80 (#0)
>>>>> GET / HTTP/1.1
>>>>> User-Agent: curl/7.28.0
>>>>> Host: www.centrelink.gov.au
>>>>> Accept: */*
>>>>>
>>>> < HTTP/1.1 302 Found
>>>> < Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 03:33:45 GMT < Server: HTTPD/1.0.0 <
>>>> Location:
>>>> http://centrelink.csda.gov.au/internet/internet.nsf/home/index.htm
>>>> < Content-Length: 327
>>>> < Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 < Set-Cookie:
>>>> EXT7-XW0-H=R3000469852; path=/ < <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC 
>>>> "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head>
>>>> <title>302 Found</title>
>>>> </head><body>
>>>> <h1>Found</h1>
>>>> <p>The document has moved <a
>>>> href="http://centrelink.csda.gov.au/internet/intern
>>>> et.nsf/home/index.htm">here</a>.</p>
>>>> <hr>
>>>> <address>IBM_HTTP_Server at commext.humanservices.gwy Port 
>>>> 80</address> </body></html>
>>>> * Connection #0 to host www.centrelink.gov.au left intact
>>>> * Closing connection #0
>>>>
>>>> curl --verbose
>>>> centrelink.csda.gov.au/internet/internet.nsf/home/index.htm
>>>> * Could not resolve host: centrelink.csda.gov.au; Host not found
>>>> * Closing connection #0
>>>> curl: (6) Could not resolve host: centrelink.csda.gov.au; Host not 
>>>> found
>>>>
>>>> nslookup centrelink.csda.gov.au dns1.centrelink.gov.au
>>>> Server:  dns1.humanservices.gov.au
>>>> Address:  203.13.3.6
>>>>
>>>> *** dns1.humanservices.gov.au can't find centrelink.csda.gov.au:
>>>> Non-existent do
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