Email follies

[rsc]

Some of you may have heard that the panix.com domain name was hijacked over the weekend. I don't understand the technical details of how this was done, or all its consequences, but what I do know is that mail sent to me at my normal address probably won't arrive. An alternative domain has been established, so if you need to send me email about something, use .net instead of .com until further notice.

Folks at Panix are, from what I understand, working around the clock to get the problem resolved.

Comments

[bitty.livejournal.com]

I feel like sending the poor staffers some hot chocolate since they're working insanely right now, but I doubt it would still be hot by the time it got there.

[susandennis]

This has just not been a good weekend for internet stuff, has it? Late Friday afternoon I tried to check my mail from my cellphone. Nothing. Got home and no joy on this computer either. Then I went to check LJ. Nothing. WTF??!! I couldn't ping much of anything. I seriously thought for a minute that the end of the world had come the internet had died.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

How ironic, sounds like a panic.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Well, curiously, the email messages about all these comments reached me, and they were surely send to the .com address. But LJ can't have the old good info in its cache, since it has been completely restarted since after the panix disaster.

Meanwhile, John can send me mail at .net, but not at .com. My connection, which was presumably established before the disaster, is alive, but if I want to create a new one I have to go through .net. Some of this may have to do with the state of caches (relatively) local to us. There's nothing new as far as I can tell in the panix MOTD.

I don't understand any of this, and I'm making a point of not bothering anybody at Panix about it.

[bitty.livejournal.com]

i've been receiving lj notifications as well.

i'm going to guess that someone at lj knows that there are a lot of panix users here and just put in the substitution. panix is just large enough that there are probably a few places out there rerouting automatically.

[ranger1.livejournal.com]

A very interesting, if unfortunate, case. Early speculation over at Slashdot is a rogue domain registrar abusing their ability to transfer domain name ownership.