[CS-FSLUG] Off the air

[Fred Miller]

On Tuesday September 14 2004 12:06 pm, Ed Hurst wrote:
> Here's a bit of techno-oriented political news. Since there's nothing
> actually political to say here, I forgo the PD label. This morning,
> about 9AM I was surfing a major political website (worldnetdaily.com)
> and it simply dropped off the face of the Net. A whois query says no
> such domain. No reponse, no host IP, nothing.
>
> Given that WND is a major conservative (yet not exactly Republican)
> website, anyone care to guess what happened, on a purely technical
> level? I'm quite puzzled.

I have seen that happen a few times, and with each there was a major hardware 
failure. It is strange, however, when there's an instant and total loss of 
the domain, etc.

Fred

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