Gmane seems to be gone

Grant Edwards invalid at invalid.invalid
Sun Feb 18 12:22:05 EST 2018


On 2018-02-18, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> I've been dreading this moment for a couple years: it looks like
>> gmane.org is gone.  The original operator/maintainer gave up a couple
>> years ago and pulled the plug. Somebody else took over at that point.
>> The Web UI was never revived, but the basic NNTP<->mailing-list gateway
>> continue to work -- until tonight.  Now the domain is gone.  Perhaps
>> it's just an oversight, but I've got a bad feeling...
>> 
> I think it was a short term hiccough, a posting of mine got bounced
> yesterday but subsequent ones worked OK.

Does news.gmane.org (or any gmane.org domain) resolve for you?

It doesn't using Google's public DNS server (8.8.8.8).

The whois database at icann.org says the gmane.org domain registration
was updated today, and it now belongs to Yomura Corporation of
Atlanta, Georga.

-- 
Grant











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