OT: query on world.std.com

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (dsr at tao.merseine.nu)]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 03:26:34PM -0400, Bob Leigh wrote:
> > forgive me, but has world.std.com gone off the air for good?
> > 
> > no nameservice, no ping (host unreachable), no mx records...
> 
> Traceroute (from a comcast cable modem connection) goes as far as
> TowerStream's routers at the Pru.
> 
> World's supportsters say it's a problem with their upstream provider
> and they hope to be back by 5pm today.

Amazingly, this is a plausible reason for the outage. (No, I will not be
renewing our contract with TowerStream. Nor do I recommend that anyone
use them until they get their act together...)

-dsr-