[Az-Geocaching] GC.com

[Brian - Team A.I.]

Looks like a HARD outage in the area or something.  The only major router in
the country that is down is in Fairbanks, AK, but I've never tracerouted my
path to the gc.com servers, so I don't know if the data passes through there
or what.

The more research I do, it looks as though there is a major disruption going
on all over the internet.  My guess is a new worm, but I could be wrong.  I
can't even get ping returns from the primary nameservers that gc.com uses.
Overall response to my 'net experience' is slower than crap.  Going back to
the worm concept, it IS July 1st, which could be a trigger for it, or it
could be related to the anticipated handover of Iraq (which occurred early,
maybe too soon to send out a patch to the infected machines).  To some these
might be conspiracy theory moments, but payload triggers for past worms have
been major events.  It's almost as if the DNS records related to gc.com have
been somehow poisoned, as it doesn't even resolve to an IP address anymore.

Meh.  I'll let that go for now.

Oddly enough, a block of 25 IP addresses isn't even responding to my network
scan, the same range that gc.com has several IP addresses for various
servers.  My guess is a router is sitting in a closet somewhere in the
groundspeak offices smoking, waiting for the gurus to open the office for
the day and inhale the stench of burnt electronics.

Brian
Team A.I.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ShadowAce" <hunting@shakabruddah.com>
To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 5:46 AM
Subject: [Az-Geocaching] GC.com


> Is geocaching.com down for some reason? I cannot get to any of the pages..
>
> I am just checking to see if anyone else is having trouble or if it is my
> ISP..
>
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