Hello ROBERT.

<<Following up a message from Daryl Stout to ROBERT WOLFE on 2/12 about Re: Test >>

Robert,

You were told incorrectly. My DixieNet, the FTN network, is still up
and running. There is an ISP called DixieNet that someone might have RW>confused me with. But, anyway, sorry to see you go, although I wish you RW>had confirmed it with me first before leaving.

It was winserver.org -- the domain I had been using with Internet
Rex for awhile. I never could get a connect with your system, and
never saw any traffic.

Plus, you never responded to me via email (wx4qz at arrl dot net)
or FIDONet Netmail to 1:19/33 -- so I didn't know what to think.

The networks I'm getting from Kris Jones and Gert Kofoed Andersen
will get the axe soon if I don't hear something from them.

I would have liked to keep the echoes, but with no netmail or
email replies, I figured all was gone.

Daryl

I am going to have to echo Daryl's sentiments here. All connection to either os2bbs.org or winserver.org went dead. NO response from either one - for weeks.
No e-mail, no NetMail, no nothing.

I absolute abhor losing a Net, much less an entire Network.

Here are the test results that I depended on for concluding that DixieNet went AWOL:

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; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> @8.8.8.8 os2bbs.org any
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 6
; ^^^^^^^^
; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; os2bbs.org, type = ANY, class = IN
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
org. 14m59s IN SOA a0.org.afilias-nst.info.
[snip]
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NXDOMAIN means non-existent domain.

Ping results:

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[c:\]ping winserver.org
PING winserver.org: 56 data bytes

----winserver.org PING Statistics----
13 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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Best regards,
Marc

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