Anyone know what is up with Amigaworld?

[Karlos]

Perhaps one of the aw.net mods or admin could post and let us know, just to calm the rumour mill.

[Karlos]

Oh bollocks you are! Prove you are who you say you are!

OK assuming you are who you say you are what happens now? Your site goes down and now you lot are coming over here? Not a chance.

Many of the long term members of the site are already members here, myself included. Look, the 'forum wars' was a long time ago.
There's no need for the hostility.

[Karlos]

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.

Someone tripped over a main switch in the datacenter...

[Karlos]

It's been a bit of a rum time for amiga forums of late. Amigans.net, AmigaWorld.net and Moobunny have all had outages and MorphZone has been without an active admin for a while (not sure if this is fixed yet).

Also, by the look of it, amigans is still limping along without any of it's legacy data reinstated. If they leave it too long, they'll face the dilemma that the data they've amassed in the meantime is important to them too.

[Karlos]

@ Templario

Well, I usually don't get distrurbed by avatars and/or tough speech and such things (I even like to break conventions ofgood taste/establishment) , but especially as a German I am a bit allergic when I see SS-Runes (or other nazi insignia) in a context that may get misinterpreted. I mean the girl doesn't look bad, plus she's looking prototypish German - and wears a uniform with nazi signs. The picture is not further commented by your avatar or sig - hence it could easily get misunderstood as a glorification of the nazi regime. And that is one of the really few things I reall don't like.

She is German I think; an actress in an upcoming comedy movie called "Iron Sky" from which his avatar appears to be taken.

See: http://www.ironsky.net/

[Karlos]

amigaworld.net is back.

Which is nice. I hope they soon find out what caused the outage.

@all

Any further posts regarding German views on the Nazi period, to Piru's Coffee House thread, if you please

[Karlos]

Maybe you missed this post from the MorphZone admin.

Ah right. Any idea what they are moving to?