Astronautix down again?

[Tacolev]

Have seen 404s, server configs and hosting company stuff over the past few hours. Anyone know anything? Those DDoSers back at it again?

 

[Star Voyager]

Works for me.

 

[n0mad23]

Works for me.

Same here :thumbup:

 

[Pyromaniac605]

Fine here as well.

 

[Tacolev]

Ah, well looks like I cried wolf a little too early. Must have just been something routine.

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Actually it looks like he just added a bunch of great new stuff on the Chinese space program! Groovinomic.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Russianspaceweb.com fall down to hackers!

Well Mark Wade's website seems to be standing at this moment, but another great website, Anatoly Zak's Russian Space Web (www.russianspaceweb.com) has fallen victim to a bunch of Asian hackers.
Be careful Tex! :sos:

Edit: DO NOT CLICK THE LINK. The website may already been infected by Trojans.

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Whatever happened a few hours ago, the website's back online. :thumbup:

 

[Unstung]

Have seen 404s, server configs and hosting company stuff over the past few hours. Anyone know anything? Those DDoSers back at it again?

Try this website to confirm if a site is actually down:
http://www.isup.me/

 

[Pipcard]

I tried to visit astronautix today and all I got was a domain parking page (Under Construction).

 

[orb]

I tried to visit astronautix today and all I got was a domain parking page (Under Construction).

Works fine for me. I just checked.

 

[Pipcard]

Works fine for me. I just checked.

Must be the school library computers (at least one of them).

 

[icedown]

I get a parked domain page also.

 

[Urwumpe]

No problem here. Also had no problem yesterday night, when I last took a look.

 

[Spacethingy]

"Women seeking men" "Shopping" "Meteor"...

Under construction for me. Unless NASA and co. have suddenly gone loopy in the past few years...

 

[Urwumpe]

Ok, now I also see it domain-grabbed. Annoying.

 

[Scruce]

Astronautix has been fine all day and it's fine now, I have been using it to get mass specifications for the TKS.

 

[Urwumpe]

The Domain is still registered to Mark Wade until 2013 and the domain registration was last refreshed last summer. I would say, either the domain server is terribly broken or somebody hijacked the domain.

 

[Pipcard]

Okay, I'm at my home computer (instead of the school's computers) and Astronautix works fine.

 

[garyw]

I think I know whats going on - I got a domain parking page. An NSLOOKUP shows this:

C:\Documents and Settings\garyw>nslookup
Default Server: dcs03.gdwnet.com
Address: 10.253.1.1

> www.astronautix.com
Server: dcs03.gdwnet.com
Address: 10.253.1.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: astronautix.com
Addresses: 63.251.171.81, 66.150.161.140, 216.55.160.127, 69.25.27.170
63.251.171.80, 66.150.161.141, 69.25.27.173
Aliases: www.astronautix.com

Note all the IP addresses? It's called a round robin entry. What that means is person one gets the first ip, person 2 gets the second ip and so on. It's an old fashioned way of load balancing traffic to servers.

Chances are one or two of those IP's are not configured so every now and then an unconfigured IP get's served up.

Try waiting 10 mins and going to the page again.

 

[Pipcard]

Okay, now I'm getting "Under Construction" at home. Thanks garyw, for the explanation.

 

[icedown]

Probably right, I finally got it to load.