In article <[email protected]>,
GigaNews <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>The website for Excalibur Tools (makers of the merlin splitter) seems to be
>down for the last week or more. Are these guys still around?
>
>It used to be http://www.excalibur-tools.com
The domain-name registration is still valid.
The company they use for DNS (name to IP address resolution) has things
all screwed up --
primary server is 'dead in the water'
secondary server doesn't know it is authoritative for that domain
tertiary server doesn't know about the domain _at_all_.
This results in a 'non-existat host/domain' error when you try to look
up the IP address for www.excalibur-tools.com. And, without an IP address,
obviously, you can't connect to the server.
I'm not terribly surprised. it's same incompetent bozos that my ISP has
outsourced their news-server service to. (Oh boy do I have horror-stories
about _that_.)
I'd recommend a phone call -- let them know the web-site is unreachable,
and _has_ been for more than a week -- or however long it is you've been
trying. Give them the 'gory details' I provided above -- if they need
clarification, feel free to give 'em my email (taking out the 'hostxxx'
part), or my phone -- (847) 570-7224.
Registrant:
Sommerville Design (EXCALIBUR-TOOLS-DOM)
940 Brock Rd
Pickering, Ontario L1W2A1
CA
Domain Name: EXCALIBUR-TOOLS.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Sommerville Design (38150958O) [email protected]
940 Brock Rd
Pickering, Ontario L1W2A1
CA
905-831-4755 fax: 905-831-4756
Record expires on 30-Jan-2006.
Record created on 30-Jan-2000.
Bulk whois optout: Y
Database last updated on 2-Aug-2004 20:47:15 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.MEGANAMESERVERS.COM 216.251.32.100
NS2.MEGANAMESERVERS.COM 216.251.32.101