| TwistyCreek 2006-06-28, 7:12 pm |
| Stephen K. Gielda wrote:
> In article <3N6CD6XN38896.6108796296@twistycreek.com>,
> anon@comments.header says...
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> I didn't do any digging to even look at their DNS. It is strange
Didn't figure you had, now or in the past to even know if DNS
resolution was working properly (not poisoned or something).
There's a few of their VPN servers that resolve to different addresses
than they did about a month ago, but this could be normal for a
business of this type with over two dozen remote hosts. It could also
be "normal" for a business in financial trouble, trying to stay afloat
by moving servers around as they're shut off. Any number of reasons,
legitimate and otherwise.
Most of their stuff, and certainly their web server, are at the same IP
addresses according to at least two name servers I've queried (and
redirects) as before the "disappearance". They just no longer respond,
or refuse access.
> 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
I wouldn't even think a raid would do it, as it would have to be
carried out simultaneously. Or it would mean a high level of
cooperation on the part of the accused, which sorta shoots a lot of
what they stood for and preached in the feet.
Then again the fact that servers seem to be going off line gradually
could mean they're being logged for connection attempts then shut down
when enough data is collected. ;)
Of course almost all of this is idle speculation.
> dissappear, if it was financial there should have at least been an
> announcement.
The no announcement thing is the most troublesome. Apparently their
mail is getting through, they're just not responding. I've seen this
same thing said a couple different places now.
I even sent off a couple emails myself just for shits and grins, and
they do in fact seem to fall into the great black email hole. The
findnot@hushmail.com address, which always was an autoresponder, is the
only thing apparently awake.
Of course I'm not a customer so they have absolutely no obligation to
tell me anything. According to some of their customers they don't
believe they have an obligation to tell them anything either though. 
It will be interesting to see how it all plays out, in any case.
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