hmm this is not good. www.netscan.org no longer responds to access from the web Henry
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 09:35:58AM -0800, Henry Linneweh wrote:
hmm this is not good.
www.netscan.org no longer responds to access from the web
It's being completely updated and revamped, as well as moved to a new physical server. It'll be back ASAP (read: a day or two). Shortly after we return, a completely rescanned database will be launched and we'll begin emailing admins of misconfigured networks. My apologies for the downtime; please feel free to contact me privately for database queries. Thanks, Troy Davis netscan.org
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Henry Linneweh wrote:
hmm this is not good.
www.netscan.org no longer responds to access from the web
That is because the domain isn't in the root name servers. This could be because it is on hold for lack of payment. You can check this using whois. Oh, sorry, NSI disabled that a long time ago. You can check it by telnetting to rs.internic.net and doing the whois there. Oh, sorry, NSI disabled that the other week. You can check to see if there is money owing on the domain using NSI's online payment system at https://payments.networksolutions.com/ ... oops, sorry, that has been down most of the time for the past few weeks. Or it could be because NSI screwed up. My new theory on why NSI does all this to make it impossible to tell such things is so they can make domain holders contact them directly so NSI can try to push their extra services onto them. Still accessible via IP address though. 216.92.33.199. I guess that using a hosts file isn't such a bad idea after all.
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 11:42:26AM -0800, Marc Slemko wrote:
That is because the domain isn't in the root name servers.
This has been corrected, but the reason it's down is independant of this.
https://payments.networksolutions.com/ ... oops, sorry, that has been down most of the time for the past few weeks.
Note also that it's not possible to pay without a tracking number - can't just say "bill me for this domain", it nee
Or it could be because NSI screwed up.
And it was. December's credit card receipt has a 12/23/98 charge of $70, and no other domains were paid for or renewed around that time. So we were charged and the payment was never recorded. Alas, we said the hell with it and paid again this morning. I'll probably try to resolve it later this week..
My new theory on why NSI does all this to make it impossible to tell such things is so they can make domain holders contact them directly so NSI can try to push their extra services onto them.
My latest complaint is with the modification-by-fax process. Someone forged an email change template for one of our domains, which we noacked (and the noack was confirmed). Nothing out of the ordinary until we checked a few days later and noticed that the fake change was processed. It seems these folks sent in a fax on <ahem> "letterhead" requesting the change. I'm curious what Guardian is for if an explicit noack is superceded *without warning* by a fax. Beware of folks with desktop publishing software. On the upside, it only took a 40 minute long distance call to get an emergency tracking number. Our faxed change request was processed the next day. Considering that forged changes (hopefully) aren't very common, I was surprised it was handled so quickly. Wake me when Network Solutions loses their monopoly.
Still accessible via IP address though. 216.92.33.199. I guess that using a hosts file isn't such a bad idea after all.
Yeah, that's an older version, but feel free to use it until we're back. netscan.org queries can be sent to me (troy@nack.net) until netscan.org returns to the root servers. -- Troy Davis
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 10:00:46PM -0800, Troy Davis wrote:
Note also that it's not possible to pay without a tracking number - can't just
Correction - the web interface was down when I tried it earlier this week, so when the phone operator said I needed an invoice number, I assumed the web interface needed one too. Seems to be up & working now. Maybe I should pay a third time for good measure. -- Troy Davis
On 03/24/99, Troy Davis <troy@nack.net> wrote:
On the upside, it only took a 40 minute long distance call to get an emergency tracking number. Our faxed change request was processed the next day. Considering that forged changes (hopefully) aren't very common, I was surprised it was handled so quickly.
We can expect that to become more and more common as people find out that it's possible. ---------========== J.D. Falk <jdfalk@cybernothing.org> =========--------- | "In case you haven't heard, the Internet is not a superhighway." | | --Bill Washburn, Internet World, Feb. 1995 | ----========== http://www.cybernothing.org/jdfalk/home.html ==========----
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