Why would browser say Site Not Found with incorrect system date?

[tpittman]

Hi,
If I push the system date on my computer forward to 10/2006 and try to browse to the Netflix website it reports a Site Not Found error. Can anyone tell me why that happens? Obviously I don't want to run around with the system date set incorrectly but when I ran into that effect it piqued my curiousity. I did some searching through Google but didn't find any relevant articles.

Thanks in advance for any help or explanations.

 

[BabyJeffy]

Do you mean you were unable to get to the domain, or do you mean that links on the site didn't take you anywhere? I'm picking the latter... since domain name lookups are not date/time restricted (on the client computer).

If it's the latter then it's most likely something the folks coding the netflix web site have done.

Do you have a particular url? Is the site appropriate for viewing from a corporate environment? I'll test it if so.

Cheers,
Jeff

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[feherke]

Hi

Just a question. Are you browsing from behind a proxy ?

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[tpittman]

It's

http://www.netflix.com

and it's safe for work (no porn or anything). Here's a link to a discussion that helped us figure out what triggered the effect but doesn't help me figure out why it works that way:

http://www.newmediamusings.com/blog/2004/07/netflix_down.html

The person who originally reported the problem had an HP computer and HP replaced the motherboard. With the new motherboard there was a typo that set the system clock to 2006 and she suddenly couldn't get to

http://www.netflix.com,

with the browser reporting "The page cannot be displayed" "cannot find server or dns error". She's a home-user, not behind a proxy.