Gmane seems to be gone

[Grant Edwards]

On 2018-02-18, Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 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.

It was Yomura who picked up the archive and continued the gateway
service a couple years ago, and they just renewed the domain for
another year, so perhaps it's just a temporary DNS problem?

-- 
Grant