[Az-Geocaching] GC.com

[Trisha]

Brian....In English, please??  :-)
Trisha


On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 08:31:30 -0700, "Brian - Team A.I." wrote:

> 
> 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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