Well my snow report goes to steamboat.com to get updates and I noticed it was not updating. After looking into it further it looks to me that the DNS servers they are using are down, making it impossible for anyone to go to steamboat.com or email anybody with a steamboat.com email address.
A whois shows me that Intrawest has the DNS servers on the same class C block of IP addresses, this is bad. When the internet goes down on the intrawest subnet all of steamboat.com goes down because they have no backup name server on a separate internet connection.
DNS2.INTRAWEST.COM 208.181.214.65
DNS1.INTRAWEST.COM 208.181.214.66
Sending “pings” to the DNS IP’s just times out. 
— 208.181.214.65 ping statistics —
76 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 75057ms
Shame on steamboat.com’s DNS administrator. This is basic internet101stuff and could be repaired in just a few minutes if anybody over at steamboat.com had a clue. If you are reading this and you are from steamboat.com, please fix this so I can scrape the snow report successfully once again. If you need help send me@phrog.org some email and ski vouchers and I would be happy to help fix this properly.
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I woke up yesterday and noticed that a friend of mines domain was expired. This is not usually a big deal and can be fixed up with a few minutes and a credit card. However this particular newbie originally purchased her domain from a reseller that was reselling Tucows registrar service. Well by the time this expiration happened this reseller had moved on and was no longer doing domain sales, Making it impossible to make a payment to renew the domain name. The contact information was listed within a whois, but nobody returned my calls.
Registration Service Provider:
Coast to Coast Hosting, dns-admin@ctch.net
303-333-8947
http://www.ctch.net
This company may be contacted for domain login/passwords,
DNS/Nameserver changes, and general domain support questions.
When I visited the website I got this “Out of Business” page.
Out of Business
Massive Server Failures Shut Us Down
Coast to Coast Hosting is no longer accepting new clients nor renewing contracts with existing clients due to several servers suffering massive disk failure.
This reseller probably did the right thing leaving the business. Heres a tip: If you can’t keep a computer running well DO NOT RUN SERVERS! Servers don’t fail on you unless you fail on them. Okay, so this guy dropped of the planet, fucking all his clients in the process. The clients did not know it yet because they are all newbs, but they will all be learning the hard way when the domains start to expire.
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If your on an etree.org mailing list then you know the server has been borked for a while. Well I upgraded the server to a 1Ghz machine yesterday. you can keep an eye on it here.
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