[PLUG-TALK] Sourceforge Off-Line

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 10:02:08AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
>    Sourceforge has been off-line for a few days now. Do any of you who follow
> the tech press have any knowledge of why they're down? Or, any indication of
> when it might be again functional?
 
They are? 
isitdownrightnow.com doesn't thing so. 
    http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/sourceforge.net.html

It's pingable.
    michael at bivy ~ % ping -c 4 sourceforge.net                                                                                             11:06 2015-07-18  =100%
    PING sourceforge.net (216.34.181.60) 56(84) bytes of data.
    64 bytes from ch3.sourceforge.net (216.34.181.60): icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=111 ms
    64 bytes from ch3.sourceforge.net (216.34.181.60): icmp_seq=2 ttl=242 time=109 ms
    64 bytes from ch3.sourceforge.net (216.34.181.60): icmp_seq=3 ttl=242 time=108 ms
    64 bytes from ch3.sourceforge.net (216.34.181.60): icmp_seq=4 ttl=242 time=110 ms

    --- sourceforge.net ping statistics ---
    4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3000ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 108.698/110.022/111.395/1.064 ms
    michael at bivy ~ %                    

And their website loads (lynx view).
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Why do you report it as down?


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