Posted on 08/11/2008 12:01:41 AM PDT by XANGEL
http://www.president.gov.ge+mikheil+saakashvili/
nah, more likely by their sympathizers at Time Warner.
There was an earlier report that another European chief executive (the President of Poland, perhaps?) had given his personal webpage over to Saakashvili’s use. This could be the reason.
yes, per another thread here. The polish government is mirroring the Georgian site. The link is somewhere around here.
More than likely. But traceroute, whois, etc. might provide you with some hard evidence.
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This is proof that world hasn't gone mad, after all.
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 ^-images found on waybackmachine at http://web.archive.org/web/20071027065037/http://www.president.gov.ge/ It's not reachable from here. |
That could be caused by lots of things -- from sabotage, to cache poisoning, to intentional blocking, to scheduled maintenance (to address the worldwide DNS issue from the end of last month).
Patience is a virtue -- wait a couple hours, and try again.
Here’s something weird. I can ping it now and get the address: http://208.75.229.98/ and it just says “SOON” when I open the browser to that address. Otherwise, the regular site is now back up and appears normal.
Yeah, me too:
% ping www.president.gov.ge PING www.president.gov.ge (208.75.229.98): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 208.75.229.98: icmp_seq=0 ttl=51 time=79.348 ms 64 bytes from 208.75.229.98: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=77.904 ms 64 bytes from 208.75.229.98: icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=78.795 msAnd the website http://www.president.gov.ge/ appears normal (from the country Georgia).
But tt's weirder than that. That IP address belongs to TULIP SYSTEMS, INC, of Atlanta GA (Georgia the state, not Georgia the country):
% whois 208.75.229.98 OrgName: TULIP SYSTEMS, INC. OrgID: TULIP Address: 55 Marietta Street Address: Suite 1740 City: Atlanta StateProv: GA PostalCode: 30303 Country: US ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.tshost.com:4321 NetRange: 208.75.224.0 - 208.75.231.255 CIDR: 208.75.224.0/21 NetName: TULIP-SYSTEMS NetHandle: NET-208-75-224-0-1 Parent: NET-208-0-0-0-0 NetType: Direct Allocation NameServer: DNS1.TSHOST.COM NameServer: DNS2.TSHOST.COMThe netcraft.net "what's that site running?" report is curious too:
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.president.gov.ge
The specifics are on this blog (linked from above Washington Post article):
RBN (Russian Business Network) now nationalized, invades Georgia Cyber Space
Scroll down the page for details and traceroutes on president.gov.ge and other Georgia sites.
Under Russian Attack
Just trying to get the word out. Because of the conflict between Russia and the Republic of Georgia we are getting hammered. We broadcast, for expatriots, three Georgian television stations and a special announcement site for the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili (president.gov.ge) if you are carrrying any Georgian based material be careful, we are receiving attacks all across the spectrum, not only on our Georgian websites but all of our issued IPs. Fortunately we have the equipment and technicians who can handle it.
We agreed to host the President’s site because Russian hackers had taken down the entire internet in Georgia. These people are nuts. Our techs are getting no sleep at all. It’s one thing to attack the .ge site. It is another to take our table out of ARIN and try to take the whole network down.
The parent site is working for me, but the English translation is down.
Thanks for the update,take care
Have you tried creating a lot of mirrors on non-Georgian public sites such as FreeSites or even blogs. You can copy down all useful data and when you have an attack, attempt to redirect? It should be pretty quick to set up a dozen or so blog sites with mirror information. I doubt Russian hackers would dare go against Google owned Blogger or others based in the US.
Actually Google is already having a problem. Some of their g-users psoted videos from .ge souces and the hackers went after those also. We’re in the process of setting up mirrors, and enhancing our firewall rules. Bit by bit we’re keeping the site up longer.
Good luck. Not sure what we in the States can do. You know we support Georgia and her rose revolution, but I think most of us are just now getting a handle of what is happening over there.
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