[AusNOG] Bit of a long shot but...

Sun Dec 5 17:13:06 AEDT 2021

Yup got it, didn't want to disrupt your sunday! I'll drop you an email with
some details

On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 3:25 PM Justin Courtney <justinjoncourtney at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I replied to you with a contact off list.  Did you get it Giles?
>
> On Sun, 5 Dec 2021, 14:18 Giles Pollock, <glp71s at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Not exactly, they are paying for the domain name via Melbourne IT (sigh)
>> and for other email hosting services, which is why this has apparently gone
>> unnoticed for some time. The web hosting and one of the other email hosting
>> services seems to have simply vanished some time ago, a few years after we
>> had a similar issue where it vanished from the bills and I caught on to the
>> fact the bill was way lower than it should have been. I think because it is
>> a small client on shared and very much obsolete infrastructure, nobody ever
>> noticed... The webserver is still running Apache 2.2.16, which went EOL
>> years ago.
>>
>> Ideally if the billing situation does get fixed as I expect it will be, I
>> would hope the service would be migrated to infrastructure that isn't so
>> old it could feasibly be entering highschool by now!
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 2:10 PM Nathan Brookfield <
>> Nathan.Brookfield at iperium.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> Are they just getting it for free?
>>>
>>> On 5 Dec 2021, at 14:06, Giles Pollock <glp71s at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>> Apparently not! It is looking more and more like the whole service has
>>> been forgotten about. There is also a web and domain hosting arrangement
>>> which seems to have vanished, although the service obviously still exists.
>>> Interestingly this isn't the first time this has happened either, but being
>>> such a small thing nobody ever really noticed.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 1:57 PM Nathan Brookfield <
>>> Nathan.Brookfield at iperium.com.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>> They’ve probably just been billed by Vocus directly?
>>>>
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>>>> On 5 Dec 2021, at 13:49, Giles Pollock <glp71s at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>> I've checked with my client and they've never had any dealings with
>>>> Commander, so if it has gone to them, then chances are the service has
>>>> fallen through the cracks. I suspect Monday will be rather interesting if I
>>>> have to try and work my way through the contact centres to figure out where
>>>> it has all gone!
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 1:37 PM Andrew Robinson <andrew at thetubes.com.au>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I believe that it may be managed by Commander.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Andrew
>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>> *From:* AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> on behalf of Justin
>>>>> Courtney <justinjoncourtney at gmail.com>
>>>>> *Sent:* Sunday, December 5, 2021 1:35:03 PM
>>>>> *To:* Giles Pollock <glp71s at gmail.com>
>>>>> *Cc:* <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net> <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
>>>>> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Bit of a long shot but...
>>>>>
>>>>> [This email originated from outside the organisation]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you know it's name, a realm, something?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 5 Dec 2021, 13:33 Giles Pollock, <glp71s at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> It was once eftel, and prior to that it was a company called impaq
>>>>> back in the early 2000s. I know eftel has moved some of their mail services
>>>>> over to iprimus resources, but this particular server definitely hasn't
>>>>> been moved....
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 1:28 PM Justin Courtney <
>>>>> justinjoncourtney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Which provider is it?  Eftel mostly but not completely went one way.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 5 Dec 2021, 12:28 Giles Pollock, <glp71s at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know who now looks after the old email services inherited
>>>>> from Eftel, which Eftel inherited from previous other consolidation/merger
>>>>> activities? I'm fairly sure an email server hosting a client of mine has
>>>>> been forgotten about and has managed to run out of disk space, and I can't
>>>>> seem to get hold of anyone who recognises it actually exists...
>>>>>
>>>>> Starting to feel a bit like this has come to life...
>>>>> http://bash.org/?5273
>>>>>
>>>>> Giles
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