Re: Did Wanadoo, French ISP, block access to SCO?

[jlewis () lewis org]

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Sean Donelan wrote:

> EWeek is reporting an anonymous source that Wanadoo, a major French ISP,
> has stopped all traffic to SCO's web site?
>
> Is this true?  Have any other ISPs taken similar action?

Can you block access to something that doesn't exist?

; <<>> DiG 9.2.2-P3 <<>> www.sco.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 10008
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
 
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.sco.com.                   IN      A
 
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
sco.com.                1582    IN      SOA     ns.calderasystems.com. 
hostmaster.caldera.com. 2004020103 3600 900 604800 1800
 
sco.com still has an A record, but it seems filtered.  I can't 
ping / traceroute / tcp/80 it.

Their MX is still reachable (ping / tcp/25 at least).

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