Trisha, He does that just to make us feel uneducated I think. I know just enough about this computer to understand a little of what Brian said, But Not All Of It!! By the way, I just picked up 2 cases of soda for the event cache on July 10th. I've been watching and it looks like we will have a nice turn out. Maybe Brian can help me through some more computernees. Bob Smith, Team Petite Elite Trisha wrote: >Brian....In English, please?? :-) >Trisha > > >On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 08:31:30 -0700, "Brian - Team A.I." wrote: > > > >>Looks like a HARD outage in the area or something. The only major >>router in >>the country that is down is in Fairbanks, AK, but I've never >>tracerouted my >>path to the gc.com servers, so I don't know if the data passes >> >> >through > > >>there >>or what. >> >>The more research I do, it looks as though there is a major >> >> >disruption > > >>going >>on all over the internet. My guess is a new worm, but I could be >>wrong. I >>can't even get ping returns from the primary nameservers that gc.com >>uses. >>Overall response to my 'net experience' is slower than crap. Going >>back to >>the worm concept, it IS July 1st, which could be a trigger for it, or >>it >>could be related to the anticipated handover of Iraq (which occurred >>early, >>maybe too soon to send out a patch to the infected machines). To >> >> >some > > >>these >>might be conspiracy theory moments, but payload triggers for past >>worms have >>been major events. It's almost as if the DNS records related to >>gc.com have >>been somehow poisoned, as it doesn't even resolve to an IP address >>anymore. >> >>Meh. I'll let that go for now. >> >>Oddly enough, a block of 25 IP addresses isn't even responding to my >>network >>scan, the same range that gc.com has several IP addresses for various >>servers. My guess is a router is sitting in a closet somewhere in >> >> >the > > >>groundspeak offices smoking, waiting for the gurus to open the office >>for >>the day and inhale the stench of burnt electronics. >> >>Brian >>Team A.I. >> >> >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "ShadowAce" >>To: >>Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 5:46 AM >>Subject: [Az-Geocaching] GC.com >> >> >> >> >>>Is geocaching.com down for some reason? I cannot get to any of the >>> >>> >>pages.. >> >> >>>I am just checking to see if anyone else is having trouble or if it >>> >>> >>is my >> >> >>>ISP.. >>> >>>____________________________________________________________ >>>Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com >>>To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: >>>http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching >>> >>>Arizona's Geocaching Resource >>>http://www.azgeocaching.com >>> >>> >>> >>____________________________________________________________ >>Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com >>To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: >>http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching >> >>Arizona's Geocaching Resource >>http://www.azgeocaching.com >> >> >____________________________________________________________ >Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com >To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: >http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > >Arizona's Geocaching Resource >http://www.azgeocaching.com > > >