Technical difficulties

[avram]

Due to someone, somewhere having technical problems, a whole bunch of blogs I read regularly are inaccessible, and have been so for a few hours. Looks like a registrar has fallen out of the DNS system somehow. I can’t see Electrolite or Making Light, or CalPundit or Unqualified Offerings. Even InstaPundit (which I don’t read, ’cause I’m sick of Glenn Reynolds’s bald-faced intellectual dishonesty, but it’s one of the biggies) is offline. As is my portfolio site, which also means that if you send email to my grumer.com address (which you probably shouldn’t be doing — I use that one for professional mail, and the grumer.org address [which is fine; it’s hosted on an entirely different ISP, and registered with a different registrar] for personal stuff) it’s not getting through. Just so ya know.

Update: Just like washing your car makes it rain, complaining on LJ about a website being down brings it back up!

Comments

[cheshyre]

Now that's odd; same thing is happening to me (up in Boston area). I thought it was something with my machine or connection, but if it's affecting you as well, then it's more than a local outage...

[webbob.livejournal.com]

According to the Hosting Matters support page, they were subjected to a Denial of Service attack. Took out access to their DNS, but also to web servers so you couldn't get at those weblogs even with an IP address.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Just like washing your car makes it rain, complaining on LJ about a website being down brings it back up!

Can I use that, if cadhla and I ever do the Extremely Practical Magic book?

Mer

[avram]

Sure.