Re: [boost] Trouble accessing www.boost.org

From: Howard Hinnant (hinnant_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-06-10 20:10:07

I can get to boost with http://ns.portraitsfromphotos.net/

Call me paranoid (and ignorant) but I'm wondering if there may be a virus 
on the loose that's attacking DNS's.

-Howard

Greg Colvin wrote on 6/10/2000 8:45 PM
>I can get there OK via browser, but something strange is going on:
>
>C:\>ping www.boost.org
>
>Pinging ns.portraitsfromphotos.net [205.157.137.216] with 32 bytes of data:
>
>Reply from 205.157.137.216: bytes=32 time=281ms TTL=238
>Reply from 205.157.137.216: bytes=32 time=250ms TTL=238
>Reply from 205.157.137.216: bytes=32 time=234ms TTL=238
>Reply from 205.157.137.216: bytes=32 time=235ms TTL=238
>
>C:\>ping www.uscs.org
>
>Pinging ns.uscs.org [205.157.137.197] with 32 bytes of data:
>
>Reply from 205.157.137.197: bytes=32 time=250ms TTL=238
>Reply from 205.157.137.197: bytes=32 time=922ms TTL=238
>Reply from 205.157.137.197: bytes=32 time=250ms TTL=238
>Reply from 205.157.137.197: bytes=32 time=266ms TTL=238
>
>C:\>ping ns.portraitsfromphotos.net
>
>Pinging ns.portraitsfromphotos.net [205.157.137.216] with 32 bytes of data:
>
>Reply from 205.157.137.216: bytes=32 time=282ms TTL=238
>Reply from 205.157.137.216: bytes=32 time=235ms TTL=238
>Reply from 205.157.137.216: bytes=32 time=266ms TTL=238
>Reply from 205.157.137.216: bytes=32 time=250ms TTL=238
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: Howard Hinnant <hinnant_at_[hidden]>
>To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
>Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 2:15 PM
>Subject: [boost] Trouble accessing www.boost.org
>
>
>> I'm still unable to access www.boost.org.  When I try I'm taken to 
>> another site that claims to be WWW.USCS.ORG (and when I specifically try 
>> to go to http://www.uscs.org/ I get the same page).  Perhaps this is a 
>> problem with my DNS (Time Warner RoadRunner).  I haven't yet had problems 
>> visiting other sites I frequent.  I've rebooted and cleared my web page 
>> cache just to make sure it isn't a problem on my machine.  Anyone else 
>> having trouble?
>> 
>> -Howard
>> 
>> Beman Dawes wrote on 6/10/2000 4:01 PM
>> >At 10:35 AM 6/10/00 -0400, Howard Hinnant wrote:
>> >
>> >>I'm having trouble accessing www.boost.org this morning ...
>> >
>> >The host ISP was down from 3:45 AM until 11:45 AM EDT Saturday
>> >morning.
>> >
>> >Their luck has been all bad for the last couple of weeks; two major
>> >and several minor outages.  Boost will change ISP's if it gets to be
>> >a habit.
>> >
>> >--Beman 
>> 
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