[87984] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GoDaddy.com shuts down entire data center?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Ghali)
Mon Jan 16 14:42:54 2006
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:41:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Matt Ghali <matt@snark.net>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20060116180741.GD826@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> FYI, Nectartech is a small hosting shop out of 55 S Market in San Jose. I
> wouldn't describe them as a "datacenter", since I don't think they own or
> operate any facilities.
Heh, I used to work at a small hosting shop out of 55 S. Market- it
was (then) called BBN Planet. I guess these schmoes rent a cage from
Genuity (or whatever they are called now).
> Perhaps if they ever managed to find "the command to make two routers talk
> to each other and be redundant" (a real quote from what has been loosely
> described as their network admin, I'm not kidding, you can't make stuff
> like this up :P), their next step might be to find the command to make dns
> servers talk to each other and be redundant.
Seriously. You need to be spewing a lot of cak onto the net for your
_domain registrar_ to take notice.
> The rest is just some random blowhard web hosting customer who
> gets off on being an ass and blaming everyone but himself and his
> choice in hosting companies.
> Hardly an uncommon sight. :)
The priceless part is that we probably never would have noticed, had
he not had the hubris to record the conversations, and then publish
the URL to them. I love it when the lusers are nice enough to
clearly identify themselves.
matto
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The only thing necessary for the triumph
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