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Secrets of Sonic Team is Down

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  1. Blades

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    Secrets of Sonic Team is finally offline.

    It would be nice if we could restore or mirror the archive. I can contribute the pages on Sonic Xtreme.
     
  2. Spehiroth

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    Looks like the entire Emulation Zone website and all pages hosted on it have shut down too. That site was like an interesting piece of emulation history: Andy Wolan first created it in 1996, making it one of the earliest emulation websites around. It is a miracle the site stayed online for as long as it did, as Andy had retired in 2006, the site had been infected with malware numerous times over the years, and many of the sites hosted on the 'Zone had moved to better hosts.

    Don't be surprised when old sites suddenly shut down like this. It costs money to keep them up, and malware infections will quickly run rampant on unmaintained sites.
     
  3. Overlord

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    http://sost.emulationzone.org/ is up just fine for me. As is the main www and ssrg subdomain.
     
  4. GerbilSoft

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    What's the IP address? Here I'm getting a "domain sales" redirect, implying the domain name registration lapsed.

    EDIT: WHOIS says registration expires on 2016/09/17, so something's wrong...
     
  5. Rika Chou

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    Works fine for me.
     
  6. DigitalDuck

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    Says, "This domain has expired. If you owned this domain, contact your domain registration service provider for further assistance. If you need help identifying your provider, visit http://tucowsdomains.com." for me.
     
  7. Covarr

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    I had trouble loading it earlier and it loaded just fine now. I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume there was a DNS change that's still propagating. It'll be fine by tomorrow.
     
  8. Overlord

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    Code (Text):
    1. C:\Users\Overlord>ping sost.emulationzone.org
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    3. Pinging sost.emulationzone.org [64.237.63.135] with 32 bytes of data:
    4. Reply from 64.237.63.135: bytes=32 time=84ms TTL=53
    5. Reply from 64.237.63.135: bytes=32 time=86ms TTL=53
    6. Reply from 64.237.63.135: bytes=32 time=92ms TTL=53
    7. Reply from 64.237.63.135: bytes=32 time=84ms TTL=53
    8.  
    9. Ping statistics for 64.237.63.135:
    10.     Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
    11. Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    12.     Minimum = 84ms, Maximum = 92ms, Average = 86ms
     
  9. GerbilSoft

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    Looks like the domain was updated earlier today:

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    2. Creation Date: 1998-09-18T04:00:00Z
    3. Updated Date: 2015-09-24T18:47:07Z
    4. Registry Expiry Date: 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z
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    It'll probably take some time to propagate the changes.
     
  10. Blades

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    Guess it was just down for a day, the nostalgia runs freely again.
     
  11. Jen

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    Yeah, it appears to be working just fine again now.

    There's not much point in keeping this topic open any longer, though, in that case.
     
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