Re: [humanmarkup] Humanmarkup.org server down

[Rob Nixon <rnixon@qdyn.com>]

Hi Manos,

There appears to be a DNS error.   I can't ping or tracert the
www.humanmarkup.org site.  If I knew what the actual IP address was for
the www.humanmarkup.org site I could try getting there that way, but
since the DNS isn't returning an IP I can't find out what it is.

I've run across this type of event a number of times.  It might be that
the servers are running fine, but that there is a Denial of Service
Attack occuring on an IP address within the same address range  as that
of the HumanMarkup.org site.

Sometimes when this occurs, they will lock out a range of addresses until
the attack has been stopped.  Unfortunately, this keeps many people from
accessing other sites within the range of the effected ones.   It could
also be regional - those people that come in from one region are
effected, while others that have a different route in will not be
effected.   It is usually cleared up within a couple hours, sometimes
days.   (This is assuming that there isn't some major problem with
network)

In checking other sites it appears that I am also unable to reach CNN at
the moment.  Although the DNS is returning the current IP address, unlike
for the www.humanmarkup.org

---
ping www.humanmarkup.org

Unknown host www.humanmarkup.org

---
for CNN -
-----

Pinging cnn.com [207.25.71.29] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 207.25.71.29:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum =  0ms, Average =  0ms

-----

Tracing route to cnn.com [207.25.71.25]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    14 ms    14 ms   <10 ms  10.42.192.1
  2    14 ms    14 ms    14 ms  srp-1-0.applwi1-rtr1.new.rr.com
[24.164.224.1]
  3    13 ms    14 ms   <10 ms  srp-3-0.applwi2-rtr1.new.rr.com
[24.164.224.24]
  4   <10 ms    14 ms    14 ms  24.160.226.41
  5    13 ms    14 ms    14 ms  pop1-chi-P3-0.atdn.net [66.185.136.97]
  6    13 ms    14 ms    14 ms  bb2-chi-P0-0.atdn.net [64.236.5.101]
  7    27 ms    41 ms    41 ms  bb2-vie-P10-0.atdn.net [64.236.7.202]
  8    28 ms    41 ms    28 ms  bb1-vie-P11-0.atdn.net [64.236.7.137]
  9    41 ms    41 ms    41 ms  bb1-cha-P7-0.atdn.net [66.185.152.57]
 10    41 ms    41 ms    41 ms  bb1-atm-P6-0.atdn.net [64.236.7.45]
 11    41 ms    55 ms    55 ms  pop1-atl-P4-0.atdn.net [66.185.136.18]
 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 16     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 17     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 18     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 19     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 20     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 21     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 22     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 23     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 24     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 25     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 26     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 27     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 28     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 29     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 30     *        *        *     Request timed out.
Trace complete.
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This should clear up.  There are other possibilities, but I think this is
one of the most likely.

- Rob


Manos Batsis wrote:

> The http/mail server has been down for several days now. What's going
> on?
>
> Manos
>
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