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February 28, 2009

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Plentyoffish.com Offline

For some unknown reason the free dating service, www.plentyoffish.com, has gone offline.
I am looking into any reason for this to be happening ans at this time have no other information.
The error page that shows up when attempting to connect with the Plentyoffish.com website is simply:
Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)

Plentyoffish.com Offline

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  1. Sean
    Feb 28 2009

    Resource on my comment is THE INQUISITR
    http://www.inquisitr.com/19004/plenty-of-fish-suffers-major-outage/

    Will update as soon as more information available.

  2. Sean
    Feb 28 2009

    Popular free dating site Plenty of Fish has suffered a major outage this afternoon.

    Visitors to the site saw only a “Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)” message on the screen, and we’re unable to get any further into the service.

    Notably this type of error would normally indicate a domain issue with the site, that may mean that it may take some time to fix. A fix to an IP address for example has to propagate across the web, and at worst case this can take up to 48 hours.

    There’s no official word yet from Plenty of Fish on the outage. As of 2:30pm PST Saturday Plenty of Fish remains offline. We’ll update the post if we here anything.

  3. Jamison
    Feb 28 2009

    Looks like a DNS error/hijack.

    nslookup plentyoffish.com
    Non-authoritative answer:
    Name: plentyoffish.com
    Address: 64.34.110.174

    nslookup http://www.plentyoffish.com
    Non-authoritative answer:
    Name: http://www.plentyoffish.com.nc.rr.com
    Address: 24.28.193.9

    The root server 4.2.2.1 is correct the IP should be 64.34.110.174

    24.28.193.9 is a Road Runner address in Herndon, VA. I’ve reported this to Road Runner, but the idiot on the phone didn’t have a clue as to what nslookup is, and isn’t even allowed to use the command prompt on his PC. And he’s a network support guy? WTF???

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