Re: Slackbuilds is down?

On 09/12/2017 08:24 PM, Ed Fletcher via slackware wrote:
> I haven't been able to reach slackbuilds.org for the last few hours with 
> either a web browser or sbopkg.  Anyone know what's going on?
> 
> Ed

 From the slackbuilds-users lists this morning:

On 09/12/2017 01:31 AM, Robby Workman wrote:
 > On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 00:14:47 -0600
 > Erik Falor <[email protected]> wrote:
 >
 >> To whom it may concern:
 >>
 >> I'm trying to connect to the slackbuilds.org website but my connection
 >> times out.
 >>
 >> http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/slackbuilds.org.html agrees with me
 >> that the site is down.
 >
 >
 > Yes, it is down.
 >
 > The Onyxlight datacenter is in Orlando, Florida (USA), which was
 > affected by Hurricane Irma. None of the staff there are currently
 > reachable, but last we heard, they and the DC are okay and have
 > emergency power available. Most likely their uplinks to the net
 > are down.
 >
 > -RW


I will say, though, that something has changed since this morning. This 
morning the entire Onyxlight netblock was gone from the BGP tables. Now 
I can traceroute most of the way there.

Steve

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