Date: 22 Mar 1998 00:55:08 +0100 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where's ASUS ? Message-ID: <xzpg1kboazn.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: richard@pegasus.com's message of "Sat, 21 Mar 1998 13:44:35 -1000" References: <199803212344.NAA10825@pegasus.com>
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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
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