Anyone know what is up with Amigaworld?

[Piru]

I had a quick look last night, and it seems to me that their nameservers are down.

I took a look couple of days ago already and here are my findings:
- Both nameservers and the web server appear down to the internet. None of the servers respond to any packets from the internet, no RST to SYNs or reply ICMP ECHO.
- Other servers in the same network block are working.
- Traceroute to other servers in the same network block shows this:

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7  217.118.16.26 (217.118.16.26)  375.181 ms  359.319 ms  319.435 ms
 8  62.193.251.115 (62.193.251.115)  260.044 ms  288.779 ms  300.288 ms
 9  62.193.231.xx (62.193.231.xx)  379.572 ms  249.112 ms  299.767 ms

...while traceroute to amigaworld.net web server and both name servers shows this:

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7  217.118.16.26 (217.118.16.26)  336.343 ms  269.567 ms  369.027 ms
 8  * * *
 9  * * *
10  * * *
11  * * *
12  * * ^C

This is really interesting as it would suggest that the amigaworld.net servers are nullrouted early on.

It could well be that the servers themselves are running just fine on the background, but are just totally severed from the internet.

Obviously none of this explains why this would be happening.

[Piru]

@Wayne & Karlos

The other servers running on the same hosting provider in the same network block are working just fine.

[Piru]

It would appear to be a hosting issue as it isn't just affecting the main site, but also some (or all) of the other services we hosted as well.

Well do those other services also use the amigaworld.net name servers or even run on the same box as the main web server? If so, then clearly those services as down as well. If some of the services are running elsewhere however it can well be that the only thing stopping those services is the DNS server outage.

[Piru]

@zylesea

The german self whipping over the incidents that happened several decades ago is something I still find it very difficult to understand. Okay there's this "Those Who Forget History Are Doomed to Repeat It" and all that, but I'd think that at some point some distance should be taken. For this particular OT I've created a thread in the coffee house.

[Piru]

amigaworld.net is back.