From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Mar 21 15:55:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA24939 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 15:55:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA24933 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 15:55:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id AAA14697; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 00:55:09 +0100 (MET) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 00:55:09 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where's ASUS ? References: <199803212344.NAA10825@pegasus.com> Organization: Gutteklubben Terrasse / KRST / PUMS X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 22 Mar 1998 00:55:08 +0100 In-Reply-To: richard@pegasus.com's message of "Sat, 21 Mar 1998 13:44:35 -1000" Message-ID: Lines: 31 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes: > } Here is a traceroute to their web site in Taiwan. Their US site appears > } to be down again > } which is understandable since they are moving. Just because a web site > } is down for a day > } does not mean the company is in trouble! > Traceroute is inappropriate for showing that a site is up or down. A site > can be up and still not reachable by traceroute. Or down, but still reachable by traceroute. > It is also pretty inept of a company to allow their long-time-working > network site to be completely unavailable just because they're moving. AOL. > Considering how easy it is to avoid this, it's not all that unreasonable > to wonder whether the company still exists. (And it's been way longer > than `a day'.) To put it bluntly, "They're moving" doesn't seem bloody likely. They wouldn't shut down the entire domain if they were just moving. According to the InterNIC, asus.com is on hold; there is another domain, asustek.com (created 1997/10/27) but my guess is it's a fraud. In my book, "on hold" is bureaucratese for "they didn't pay the bill so we shut them down". DES, aka. DS10339, who usually pays his bills on time :P -- fprintf(stderr, "I have a closed mind. It helps keeping the rain out.\n"); To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message