CIHost Failure

[Ken Eddings]

Found this on the NANOG mailing list from earlier today:

At 10:25 AM -0800 12/31/1999, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
>There are domain problems everyday of the year.  CI Host issued a press
>release yesterday, they had data problems with their nameservers related
>to some construction in their computer room.  It is not related to Y2K.
>
>
>On Fri, 31 December 1999, Blake Willis wrote:
>  > A few (perhaps 2%) of the domains I've looked up today aren't
>  > resolving.  It appears that several hosting companies have turned off their
>  > nameservers until after this Y19100 foolishness is over.  cihost.com is one
>  > of them.  I wonder if their customer SLA covers this.  It seems that this
>  > reaction is a lot like what many predict will happen to phone systems:  the
>  > date rollover doesn't break things, panic does.  Has anyone on 
>the list shut
>  > down any equipment as preventative maintenence, and if so, how have your
>  > customers reacted?

Hope this helps.

At 10:16 PM +0000 12/31/1999, jdaedalus at my-deja.com wrote:
>Hello Forum:
>
>Does anyone know why CIHost is down?  I have several domains parked and
>hosted with them and they are all down--they have been down for two
>days! and I can't even access their Website for a status update.
>
>Please let me know if you have any information.  Thanks in advance,
>
>Jim
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.

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