Re: AIOE server timing out

[email protected] Fri, 27 Jan 2023 11:53:36 -0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups aioe.news.helpdesk
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 26 Jan 2023 18:45:33 +0100
Franz_aRTiglio <[email protected]> wrote:
>Sembra che [email protected] abbia detto :
>> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 13:37:26 -0500
>> Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 1/25/2023 3:28 AM, Marco Moock wrote:
>>>> Am 24.01.2023 um 12:28:30 Uhr schrieb Paul:
>>>> 
>>>>> It seems both the news server and the web server
>>>>> are timing out.
>>>>> 
>>>>>      nntp.aioe.org port 119
>>>>>      https://news.aioe.org/documentation/access-restrictions/
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cycling the power on my networking equipment (to get a new
>>>>> IP from my provider), does not change the symptoms.
>>>> 
>>>> m@ryz:~$ ping news.aioe.org
>>>> PING news.aioe.org (46.165.242.91) 56(84) bytes of data.
>>>>  From po-2.ce07.fra-01.de.leaseweb.net (212.95.37.31) icmp_seq=1 
>>>> Destination Host Unreachable
>>>> 
>>>> It is a problem at their site, it seems that the router cannot reach
>>>> the host, maybe cable unplugged, server shutted down, NIC disabled...
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Progress. A tiny bit. Backup server ping-able.
>>
>> Obviously wasn't a simple broken link if one server is back up with no
>> services. Wonder if they were hacked?
>
>hearsay (but from a trustable source): server broke down, will be on
>asap but rebuilding the disk array may take some time, paolo (aioe
>master) is working on it.

They have at least 2 servers nntp.aioe.org and news.aioe.org so that can't be 
right. If they've both been destroyed thats almost certainly a hack.