Hi Mark,

>> Are you sure?

>> You're right, this node is not marked down. Sorry about that.

>> Though that particular address does find an ip address with the
>> host command:

>> fidocl880.no-ip.org.net has address 23.21.224.150

>that's an interesting domain... .org.net? i came up NXDOMAIN for both .org and
> .net but for the above .org.net i came up with the same address that you
> found...

> whois on that 23.21.224.150 shows that it belongs to amazon
> (AMAZON-EC2-USEAST-10) as one of their 23.20.0.0/14 addresses...

>something's not right with that domain name... i think someone screwed up thei
> DNS entry...

Sure looks like it :)

>> tcptraceroute though shows port 24556 is closed...

> IIRC, we've seen problems in the past with amazon cloud hosted FTN sites...

Yes, that's true...

Take care,
Janis

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