A quick note: we are not able to ping kernel.org. or any of the sub-domains. We are not sure if it was planned or it is another attack just like before. Kernel.org did mentioned that they’ll be re-installing OS on all of their boxes but we never thought that they’ll pull out the entire infra.
Please let us know if you are aware of the situation.
UPDATE 1: We tried ping.eu to ping them. We also tried using google’s DNS service but we still can’t reach kernel.org.
UPDATE 2: Newest kernel is released on GitHub instead of kernel.org. From the looks of this email, my guess is that even Linus is also not sure what is happening with kernel.org.
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adityapatawari
aporter I was able to reach https://kernel.org yesterday. Now again it is not opening and I don't think there has been a word about what is going on from kernel.org guys.
derobert
FYI, they've got some of their nameservers working again. http://kernel.org works again (but not http://www.kernel.org/ which goes through different DNS servers, apparently for geographic load balancing)
derobert
None of their nameservers are answering queries. If you have the A record cached locally (or at your ISP) it probably still works.
adityapatawari
derobert That explains a lot. thanks man!
adityapatawari
Strangely http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/kernel.org says that website is up. I wonder how these guys are able to access kernel.org
Can't reach them at http://kernel.org or http://www.kernel.org in Utah.
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