Plentyoffish.com Offline
2009 February 28
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
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???
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.
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.