KeenSpace Comics

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  1. MarkIsrael@aol.com

    [email protected] New Member

  2. Ike

    Ike New Member

  3. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    I've gotten 3 emails this morning from readers saying, for instance:

    "I am unable to access degreeinfo.com. It now goes to what is know as
    keenSpace forums. Any idea what has happened? Or is it only my PC that is
    having this problem?"
     
  4. Ike

    Ike New Member


    Degreeinfo administrators may have changed the URL of the discussion board to http://forums.degreeinfo.com without making the necessary DNS entry changes. Perhaps somebody manipulated a DNS server entry somewhere :D. To fix the current problem, the forum administrators should change the URL back to http://www.degreeinfo.com/forums .
    I am not sure that they are aware of the problem at this time. Have they been notified?
    Ike
     
  5. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    Noon Thursday

    I called Chip White to be sure he knew, and he does, and they're working on it.

    (It's odd that a few of us are getting through. Sort of the private Ike-and-Mark-and-John forum for this morning).
     
  6. galanga

    galanga New Member

    me too

    Hi folks,

    Oley oley in free, found you!

    I was worrying that it's part of the joe job, or something even nastier that blew past all my virus software and somehow loaded a redirect away from the real forum in some secret place in my PC.

    G
     
  7. Mohammed

    Mohammed New Member

    Success!!

    Hello everyone,

    So, I've finally managed to get through! I was getting worried
    that degreeinfo had changed its focus to comics!!

    :D
     
  8. plcscott

    plcscott New Member

    I tried the link also today, and suspected the joe job.
     
  9. Chip

    Chip Administrator

    Hi, folks.

    I am pleased and somewhat embarrassed to report that the unexpected temporary modification of our business plan to include discussion of comics was nothing related to the joe-job, it was ineptitude on our part while doing some of the fortification and load balancing that we've been doing as part of the process of protecting our site and distributing load.

    We got some 30 emails asking about it, but decided to focus on getting the problem fixed rather than responding to all the emails.

    Although the joe-job is still going on now and then, it's more in the realm of an annoyance and something that's helping to get the news media interested in the actions of the diploma mills than something that's having any negative effect on us. We still absolutely condemn spam and would stop it immediately if we knew the source of it, but the maliciousness of the people behind it has caught the attention of both the FBI and the news media, so, once again, all they're doing is making us stronger and more visible.

    Part of our site is now hosted from a server that belongs to one of our business partners, and that server also hosts Keenspot Comics. Other parts of the site remain with Choicewebhost.

    And actually, forums.degreeinfo.com is where the forum has been for at least 4 months or more, no change was made there... but there's a mirror of that at www.degreeinfo.com/forums so you can get to it with either url.

    Anyway, I apologize for the problem... it was a configuration error in the new server that simply wasn't routing the arriving trafffic to the correct directory. But it should be fixed now.

    Thanks for your concerns and continued support.
     
  10. kevingaily

    kevingaily New Member

    Thanks Chip!!!!

    It's good to know that it wasn't a foul play issue. :)
     

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