[Coco] Trump killed the Color Computer Archive site?

[William Carlin]

I agree with David Ladd.  This looks like a localized ISP DNS issue.  If I
remember correcyly the 8.8.8.8 address are the DNS servers for OpenDNS.

William Carlin

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Salvador Garcia via Coco <
coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> Speculating here... there are some "active" anti-anti-T#ump groups around
> that go against people that in any way criticize the prez. Although
> improbable, it is possible that one of these groups retaliated against DH
> for hosting a Website that went against their Glorious Leader and refused
> to cooperate when asked to do so.
>
> On Thursday, August 24, 2017, 1:04:45 PM CDT, David Ladd <
> davidwladd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From the status report at their twitter page:
> https://twitter.com/dhstatus
>
> and website status portal of:
> http://status.dreamhost.com/
>
> It is a DDoS attack.  So once the attack is over whom ever is hosted on
> dreamhost.com will get their websites back to normal operation.  Hopefully
> :P
>
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> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Rietveld Rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Isn't the archive site hosted in Canada?
> >
> > It should be oK since our Prime Minister tweeted
> > 'welcome to Canada'
> >
> >
> > Sent from my BlackBerry Passport Red Edition.
> >  Original Message
> > From: Barry Nelson
> > Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2017 1:25 PM
> > To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> > Reply To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> > Subject: [Coco] Trump killed the Color Computer Archive site?
> >
> >
> > The site colorcomputerarchive.com appears to be down. It seems it was
> > hosted on dreamhost.com. I don’t know if it’s related but Trump recently
> > made a request for all IP addresses of all users who visited a Trump
> > protest site which was hosted on dreamhost as well. Dreamhost challenged
> > the request in court, and now it seems every web site hosted on dreamhost
> > is offline? I hope this is not related.
> >
> > > www.colorcomputerarchive.com.
> > Server:        8.8.8.8
> > Address:        8.8.8.8#53
> >
> > ** server can't find www.colorcomputerarchive.com: SERVFAIL
> >
> > http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/colorcomputerarchive.com <http://
> > downforeveryoneorjustme.com/colorcomputerarchive.com>
> >
> > Is colorcomputerarchive.com down?
> >
> > It's not just you!  colorcomputerarchive.com <
> http://colorcomputerarchive.
> > com/> looks down from here.
> >
> > http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/dreamhost.com <http://
> > downforeveryoneorjustme.com/dreamhost.com>
> >
> > Is DreamHost down?
> >
> > It's not just you!  dreamhost.com <http://dreamhost.com/> looks down
> from
> > here.
> >
> > Damn, I REALLY don’t want to have to use the next box!
> >
> >
> > Quote: "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> >  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> > -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> >
> >
> >
> >
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