[SAC] osgeo.org outage + 'fix'

[Howard Butler]

On Mar 5, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Martin Spott wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 11:14:46PM -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
>
>> I found that there were many network connections open to  
>> 202.114.10.251
>> (via netstat), and then got into HTTP logs to find that that IP  
>> address
>> was repeatedly downloading specific files from the ossim SVN  
>> repository.
>
> Are you talking about 'svn.osgeo.org' ? BTW, there's a funny thing
> about this address, as the reverse lookup of 66.223.95.245 points to a
> totally different hostname  :-)
>
> foehn: 21:10:19 ~> nslookup 66.223.95.245
> [...]
> Name:    webmail.danvillestation.com
> Address:  66.223.95.245


> Hmm, must be a reused IP address within peer1.  Can someone who's  
> dealt with Peer1 before request that they change the reverse dns of  
> this address?  I think it should be osgeo1.osgeo.org or something  
> like that.


Ok, I have filed a ticket in hopes that they will change it to point  
to osgeo1.osgeo.org (after adding a DNS record for osgeo1.osgeo.org  
that points to .245).

Hope this does more good than harm :)

Howard