Wrong URL in Computer > About Ubuntu...

[Daniel Aguerrevere]

When you click on the Computer menu, and then on About Ubuntu..., it opens
home.ubuntu.com, which doesn't seem to exist.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

it works fine here. What's the result of a "host home.ubuntu.com" on your box ?

[Daniel Aguerrevere (digagar)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> it works fine here. What's the result of a "host home.ubuntu.com" on your box ?

$ host home.ubuntu.com
home.ubuntu.com CNAME www.no-name-yet.com
www.no-name-yet.com does not exist, try again

It doesn't work on any computer in here, even with other OSes.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

That is the correct URL; the error is that it does not currently exist.
Reassigning to James

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Seems to happen with some nameservers and not others; maybe a bad cached record
floating around...

mizar:[~] host www.no-name-yet.com
www.no-name-yet.com does not exist, try again

dijkstra:[~] host www.no-name-yet.com
www.no-name-yet.com has address 82.211.81.132

[James Troup (elmo)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Seems to happen with some nameservers and not others; maybe a bad cached record
> floating around...
>
> mizar:[~] host www.no-name-yet.com
> www.no-name-yet.com does not exist, try again
>
> dijkstra:[~] host www.no-name-yet.com
> www.no-name-yet.com has address 82.211.81.132
>

I've worked around this by removing the CNAME and pointing home.ubuntu.com
directly at rookery which in turns redirects (via apache) to
www.ubuntulinux.org. This should remove the immediate problem. I'll continue
to investigate why the Dynamic DNS stuff is broken for CNAMEs like that.