Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 2 Oct 2017, Russell Senior wrote: > SpiritOne is unlikely to be using dnsmasq for anything ISP critical. > Dnsmasq is a combined DHCP/DNS server intended for embedded platforms, > e.g. routers and such, although there are some wider uses. Such as small networks. Rich _

Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 2 Oct 2017, Russell Senior wrote: > ssh shell.aracnet.com > > The hostname I get is radium. I notice I connected over ipv6, though I > don't know if that's relevant, thought I'd mention it. Might be relevant. My systems are not set up to use ipv6 and I get no response to ssh shell.arac

Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-02 Thread Russell Senior
> "Keith" == Keith Lofstrom writes: Keith> The bad guys may be exploiting the DNS flaw described below, Keith> recently patched in the distro I'm currently upgrading. FYI: SpiritOne is unlikely to be using dnsmasq for anything ISP critical. Dnsmasq is a combined DHCP/DNS server intended for

Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-02 Thread Russell Senior
> "David" == David Fleck writes: David> On Sun, 2017-10-01 at 17:38 -0700, Russell Senior wrote: >> Fwiw, it seems to be working for me, now. >> >> I can ssh to my shell account there, and ping to/from my dsl service. David> I can now successfully ping a number of their machines, but they

Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-02 Thread Rich Shepard
Pat and crew just pushed out patched dnsmasq packages for Slackwere-13.0--current in both 32- and 64-bit flavors. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-02 Thread Mike C.
On 10/2/17 12:51 PM, plug-requ...@lists.pdxlinux.org wrote: Just to be clear, based on the results of the testing I did it seemed to me that the problems the OP was experiencing with SpritOne were more Internet routing related and less DNS related. A a traceroute from my home Comcast IC bounced

Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-02 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Just so you know that you are not alone. Heard that on a building site decades ago from a wise man responding to a frustrating moment... Enjoy: I have been cutting this 4x4 so many times and it is still short! I am sure going to keep cutting it until it is the right size! -Tomas On Oct 2, 2017

Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-02 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 10:36:37AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > I think Mike C. was correct, that it's a DNS problem. > Perhaps one or more root servers was corrupted or attacked. The bad guys may be exploiting the DNS flaw described below, recently patched in the distro I'm currently upgrading.

Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 2 Oct 2017, Dick Steffens wrote: > I have a friend with SpiritOne. She called and learned, "that there is a > global problem that they’re working on. There is not estimated time for > the repairs being completed." Dick, I think Mike C. was correct, that it's a DNS problem. Perhaps one

Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-02 Thread Dick Steffens
On 10/02/2017 08:14 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 1 Oct 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: > >>If I see a response from tech support I'll forward it to the list. > Nothing from tech support, nothing on their web site since 25 Sept. <...> I have a friend with SpiritOne. She called and learned, "

Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 1 Oct 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: > If I see a response from tech support I'll forward it to the list. Nothing from tech support, nothing on their web site since 25 Sept. Last evening and this morning I received bounces for 4 messages sent after 5:00 pm Friday and about 7:30am Saturday

Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-02 Thread David Fleck
On Sun, 2017-10-01 at 17:38 -0700, Russell Senior wrote: > Fwiw, it seems to be working for me, now. > > I can ssh to my shell account there, and ping to/from my dsl service. I can now successfully ping a number of their machines, but they reject my password when I try to log in.  What machine d

Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 1 Oct 2017, Michael Barnes wrote: > I found some references that they suffered a pretty bad attack in August > that affected their email services. They were trying to migrate to a new > server a couple days ago that looks like it went sideways on them. Might > have some bearing on your iss

Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-01 Thread Michael Barnes
I found some references that they suffered a pretty bad attack in August that affected their email services. They were trying to migrate to a new server a couple days ago that looks like it went sideways on them. Might have some bearing on your issues today. Michael On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 10:48

Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-01 Thread Russell Senior
> "eehouse" == eehouse writes: eehouse> Starting on Friday I became unable to connect from work or home eehouse> (ATT DSL) to my SpiritOne-hosted VM, but was able to reach it eehouse> from my cell phone (TMO). In fact I'm connected now from my eehouse> home network through my cell phone. Fro

Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-01 Thread eehouse
Starting on Friday I became unable to connect from work or home (ATT DSL) to my SpiritOne-hosted VM, but was able to reach it from my cell phone (TMO). In fact I'm connected now from my home network through my cell phone. From inside I see nothing wrong. I'm no networking expert, but I suspect an u

[PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-01 Thread Mike C.
On 10/1/17 12:00 PM, plug-requ...@lists.pdxlinux.org wrote: > Anybody in the PDX area know what's happened to > spiritone.com/aracnet.com? My wife uses them as her primary email > account, and their mail and web servers have been offline and un- > pingable since sometime Friday. I couldn't p

Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-01 Thread Galen Seitz
On 10/01/17 09:48, David Fleck wrote: > On Sun, 2017-10-01 at 09:29 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > [rshepard@salmo ~]$ ping mx.spiritone.com > PING mx.spiritone.com (216.99.193.22) 56(84) bytes of data. > --- mx.spiritone.com ping statistics --- > 9 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss,

Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-01 Thread John Meissen
Lots of message with no response left on their Facebook page, too. Not the way for an ISP to behave. I guess we'll find out tomorrow if they're still around. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pl

Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 1 Oct 2017, David Fleck wrote: > Thanks for the digging, Rich. Interestingly, I can't successfully ping > *any* IP address related to spiritone.com from where I am. David, Perhaps there are restrictions to electron immigration from out of state? Seriously, in the 20 or so years I'

Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-01 Thread David Fleck
On Sun, 2017-10-01 at 09:29 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: $ dig spiritone.com MX ; <<>> DiG 9.10.5-P3 <<>> spiritone.com MX ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 32653 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSE

Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 1 Oct 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: > Their mail server (white.spiritone.com) is off-line (cannot ping it) but > my outbound mail, which must be relayed through them, goes out. David/Ken, et al.: I sent a message directly to one of their tech supporters who's been really helpful. The ad

Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 1 Oct 2017, David Fleck wrote: > Anybody in the PDX area know what's happened to spiritone.com/aracnet.com? > My wife uses them as her primary email account, and their mail and web > servers have been offline and un- pingable since sometime Friday. Calls to > tech support get automatically

Re: [PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-01 Thread Galen Seitz
On 10/01/17 07:03, David Fleck wrote: > Anybody in the PDX area know what's happened to > spiritone.com/aracnet.com? My wife uses them as her primary email > account, and their mail and web servers have been offline and un- > pingable since sometime Friday. Calls to tech support get automatically >

[PLUG] What's up (or down) with spiritone/aracnet?

2017-10-01 Thread David Fleck
Anybody in the PDX area know what's happened to spiritone.com/aracnet.com? My wife uses them as her primary email account, and their mail and web servers have been offline and un- pingable since sometime Friday. Calls to tech support get automatically routed to a full inbox. This is not the level o