tenthofjune

Here’s an interesting article about using Damn Small Linux on an old laptop.
Not tried it yet but will soon.

Just checked and all my joker.com websites have come back.
traceroute to www.fitterfamily.info (159.25.17.193), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1  gw.ukian.com (192.168.1.1)  3.989 ms  0.893 ms  1.005 ms
2  10.19.16.1 (10.19.16.1)  17.327 ms  7.032 ms  7.614 ms
3  oldh-t2cam1-a-ge-wan41-111.inet.ntl.com (80.5.164.45)  9.723 ms  7.426 ms  7.193 ms
4  manc-t3core-1a-ge-012-0.inet.ntl.com (213.104.242.73)  7.866 ms  8.480 ms  8.073 ms
5  man-bb-a-so-400-0.inet.ntl.com (213.105.172.241)  9.628 ms  8.672 ms  15.522 ms
6  man-bb-b-ae0-0.inet.ntl.com (62.253.187.178)  9.516 ms  9.473 ms  8.910 ms
7  win-bb-a-so-300-0.inet.ntl.com (62.253.185.138)  15.178 ms  15.079 ms  15.089 ms
8  gfd-bb-b-so-500-0.inet.ntl.com […]

After further digging, it appears that this problem is a network issue:
A traceroute to one of my domain names which is set to use joker’s URL forwarding shows network unreachable:
traceroute to www.fitterfamily.info (159.25.17.193), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1  gw.ukian.com (192.168.1.1)  2.433 ms  6.152 ms  0.913 ms
2  10.19.16.1 (10.19.16.1)  7.316 ms  8.956 ms  7.575 ms
3  oldh-t2cam1-a-ge-wan41-111.inet.ntl.com (80.5.164.45)  9.723 ms  9.604 ms  7.438 ms
4  manc-t3core-1a-ge-012-0.inet.ntl.com […]

Today on joker.com’s website is the following:
Our Web site as well as our system will undergo a scheduled maintenace [sic] at 11.00 UTC on November, 27th. It will take approximately two (2) hours. Your domains will be resolvable as usual.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Your Joker.com team
So, I don’t know whether anything […]

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