Al Jazeera web site unavailable?

[Don Aitken]

[xpost & fu set to uk.net.regulation]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 23:32:42 +0000, DrB
<drb.ser...@serendipity.clara.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <9do18v0p5ffupb381...@4ax.com>, Norbert
><abuse.c...@gmx.net> writes
>>Is it entirely due to internet congestion that neither
>>http://www.aljezeera.net nor
>>http://www.al-jezeera.com nor
>>http://english.aljezeera.net
>>seem to be available?
>
>Nope. Partly a large increase in users -
>http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,921693,00.html
>
>but also apparently some deliberate action against the sites -
>http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s816285.htm

None of which explains the fact that all three URLs give an instant
DNS error.

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Don Aitken