| Stephen K. Gielda 2006-06-28, 7:12 pm |
| In article <3N6CD6XN38896.6108796296@twistycreek.com>,
anon@comments.header says...
> Stephen K. Gielda wrote:
>
> <snippage>
>
>
> Looks like they're just gone, and by their own hand. Everything
> appears just fine NS wise. Many of their VPN servers won't even respond
> to a PING, and none of them will accept connections in spite of the fact
> that they're spread out among God knows how many hosts. That's actually
> changed from yesterday when most of their VPN server were at least
> responding to echo requests. It's down to about half now.
>
> There's been no reply from the owners Hushmail or "local" addresses in
> days either.
>
> Also, you'll notice none of the sock puppets seem to be denying they're
> gone or offering any of their usual lame excuses. No, in fact the only
> thing any of them have said is "people are cheap". It's almost like
> they know something we don't. ;)
>
> It doesn't make any sense that a "network problem" would take out
> servers on multiple continents, and the DNS record is alive and well,
> and resolving properly. I suppose there's some outside chance it's an
> "act of God" or whatever, but it doesn't look that way from here. 
>
>
I didn't do any digging to even look at their DNS. It is strange that
everything would vanish like this, being diverse really only leaves DNS
as the item that could take it all down, well that or legal action/raid,
which is possible. It's very odd to just dissappear, if it was
financial there should have at least been an announcement.
/steve
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