NS just went down again, a bunch of KVM machines on FranTech went down too, seems to be network issues Edit: back after a couple of minutes

I got more info, Free Hosting Nameservers are actually hosted on **FranTech/NameCrane/BuyVM** where they had a power outage. This is not something iFastNet can fix directly unless they move stuff back to their own infra. NameCrane is aware of this and is actively trying to fix it FranTech Discord:

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Admin: > anycasted i use ipinfo to check the IPs, and could’ve sworn for CF IPs it has Anycast tag. I guess FranTech can tell ipinfo to update the info. Also admin, how often you watch TV in your country? RTL Tonight Intro/Outro Transparent i’m addicted to this theme for hours . alright, let’s run an experiment

TiffanyLynch: > all of their NS is centralized in one location (FranTech in New Mexico,) No, it isn’t. The nameserver IPs are anycasted across Europe, US East and US West. The only thing that’s in New Mexico is the registered office of the company providing that infrastructure. And no, you cannot tell this from the IP WHOIS information. That only tells you who owns the IP address and where they are located, IP addresses do not inherently have a physical presence anywhere.

a cool confusion material for tonight: mofh’s nameservers ptr record doesn’t actually match the intended IPs. ns1’s PTR is ns1, good. but, ns2’s PTR is ns3, ns3’s PTR is ns2, ns4’s PTR is ns3, and ns5’s PTR is ns4. also mofh feels like another cloud computing giant. all of their NS is centralized in one location (FranTech in New Mexico,) so if that entire DC goes down, say goodbye to free subdomains