Re: Slackbuilds is down?

On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 20:38:06 -0500
Steve Saner via slackware <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.


The DC is back up. We are currently doing something with our stuff
that we'd been putting off for a good opportunity. This is that
opportunity since it's been off anyway. Expect us back up within a
little while :-)

-RW 
 

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