Anyone know what is up with Amigaworld?

[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...

[Piru]

@Wayne & Karlos

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

[Wayne]

@Wayne & Karlos

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

Well, then.. I dunno.  Hope all is well.  Anyone actually talk to Dave?

Wayne

[Templario]

Beatiful Amiga users, I like the blond, excuse me, the polo shirt.

[Templario]

@kesa: zerohero is a valued member of the community and a cooler mod over there, just saying since you seem not to know.

@templario: so it is enough for you your os4 hardware to break, and being quite reasonably expelled from aw.net for a week, for calling others members names, to hate your previously most loved site? see no reason at all.

Yes, and some bad commnets? how that I left the Amiga for money problems?, and other question is the custom of expelled every time that I speak about Mor..., and this only for speak the need of join resources, but now I step that, because I'll going to other system with less problems and " some comments".

[tomazkid]

Well, then.. I dunno.  Hope all is well.  Anyone actually talk to Dave?

Wayne

Well, yes. Have not got a reply yet, but David is quite busy IRL, so no wonder.

Anyway, I know as much as Zerohero.

As Piru wrote, the host network is up, so seems it is something with the connection to the server itself, hope it is just a faulty cable, and nothing more serious.

[_Steve_]

Well, then.. I dunno.  Hope all is well.  Anyone actually talk to Dave?

Wayne

I have been trying to get hold of Davey to find out what exactly is going on, as unfortunately I do not even know myself. 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.

[wawrzon]

Yes, and some bad commnets? how that I left the Amiga for money problems?, and other question is the custom of expelled every time that I speak about Mor..., and this only for speak the need of join resources, but now I step that, because I'll going to other system with less problems and " some comments".

i can very well understand being bored of these pointless bashing over at aw, and for different reasons getting fed up with the kind of community. but actually you were very much part of this yourself, so i dont understand why out of the sudden you get so much offended the first time they didnt back you up completely. btw you were calling opi a fascist for *no* reason. i really find it distasteful. so why do you then show up here with this ss-porn avatar, or what it is?

[Templario]

i can very well understand being bored of these pointless bashing over at aw, and for different reasons getting fed up with the kind of community. but actually you were very much part of this yourself, so i dont understand why out of the sudden you get so much offended the first time they didnt back you up completely. btw you were calling opi a fascist for *no* reason. i really find it distasteful. so why do you then show up here with this ss-porn avatar, or what it is?

Well, I answer you step to step.
The Opi attack, well, I recognize that I was wrong, because Opi was the Mo... users that who misunderstood or manipulated my words to be expelled.
Other point is that forum the expelled makes anyone, without giving an opportunity to defend me, for example I was expelled but nobody was the executor, and after of Opi's incident I was threat for the second administrator the same that don't know who was the executor the first expelled.

  Second the porn avatar that worry you:
http://www.ironsky.net/site/propaganda/pictures/
Well, the avatars I saw avatars more porn and more offensives, if you are offend, well, it is incredible for me, because you often offend in other forum, because there there are many avatars offensive.
And I finish the discussion, that now I'm of visit not for discuss, this is Amiga.org not Amigaworld.

[wawrzon]

cool down. i do not feel offended by you. but i think you act in much too emotional way, and this gets you in trouble. dunno what that iron sky stuff is, whatever. ive been also abuse reported on aw for nothing, and they didnt care to answer to my complaint. whatever i say. i get over with this. feel no hate..

[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.

[zylesea]

Hope aw.net recovers soon. I like that place. Discussiosn pretty often turn couraged there and there is an overall bias to OS4, but all in all I like that place.

@ 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. I guess most Germans (and even more those who suffered from the Nazi regime) may feel offended by your avatar.
While I doubt you glorify the Nazi regime I suggest to better change the avatar to avaoid confusion or give a reference in your signature. At least in Germany you would ask for trouble with this avatar - showing nazi signs is forbidden by law (exceptions are for art and documentation).
On http://www.juliadietze.de there are plenty nice pictures of her w/o nazi signs...

[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/

[zylesea]

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/

I know, and I also know that  the movie is a comedy. I don't have anything against the movie, nor Julia Dietze. But I have a little problem with showing pictures with SS-Runes where the context is not clear. If the picture had a link to the movie - no prob. but w/o it can get misunderstood.
Don't get me wrong, I usually sh*t on being pc, but nonetheless I wouldn't put up an avatar with "kill all jews, communists, disabled and non conformists" (and that's what the SS stands implicitely for) *w/o* further explanation why I use such a bold statement.

[wawrzon]

@zylesea: exactly what i was trying to express, maybe not clearly enough.