[Az-Geocaching] GC.com

[Brian - Team A.I.]

Something broke.  It's fixed.


Brian
Team A.I.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Trisha" <trisha@brasher.com>
To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] GC.com


> 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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