'Gabriel Rocha' wrote: > it is around 1130, local time, Geneva, Switzerland and > http://www.aljazeera.net/ is working just fine. (well, it might be a > fake, but not having ever seen the original, I don't know)
It looks like over here in Europe we're getting DNS to aljazeera.net pointing to a French site. I don't know if that would have been the case a few days ago. http://www.cursor.org/aljazeera.htm has pointers to news items claiming that: "Launch of English website delayed until mid-April Doha - Waves of spam kept Al-Jazeera's website down for a third day on Thursday and officials at the satellite channel said it was coming from US e- mailers apparently angry over its coverage of the Iraqi war. The Qatar-based network, which has broadcast graphic footage of dead US and British soldiers, also said it would now have to delay the introduction of an English-language site for several weeks due to the barrage of spam, or junk electronic mail. "English.aljazeera.net will not be launched until mid-April," online editor-in-chief Abdel Aziz Al-Mahmud told AFP." Which, if true (could be COW-a-ganda) means AJ are victims of successful DoS. Maybe someone should tell them about Spam Assassin. aljazeera.com.qa gives me 64.70.250.49 which ARIN assign to cybergate in Florida. Last stages of traceroute are: Nuts! That has a website pointing to "Al-Jazeera Islamic Bank" For all I know Al-Jazeera may be the Qatari equivalent of Acme and Ace in Roadrunner cartoons. Default corporate brand name.
