That traceroute looks suspiciously like it's going to Philadelphia. (Second prize, TWO nameservers in Philadelphia...) The www site's there also, safely and reliably on dry land. However, if you do a traceroute to Ryan's remailer.havenco.com, you'll see a path that goes quickly to London, to "unknown.level3.net", then quickly to "havenco-gw", then with much more delay to 213.169.220.162, then with similar delay to remailer.havenco.com. Havenco's talked for a while about metastasizing, putting servers in a bunch of places for reliable fast performance for non-critical data and mainly keeping the critical database parts and more paranoid material over in Sealand. Certainly they'd want to have basic advertising material and some of their DNS mirrors on dry land. Also, it's interesting that the whois record for havenco.com is registered from Cyprus. At 11:00 PM 11/29/2001 -0600, measl@mfn.org wrote:
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
And when victory was well in hand, they shut down not merely havenco,
Looks OK to me:
Tracing route to havenco.com [207.106.3.14]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms r01.fl.datapacket.net [208.195.14.225] 2 <10 ms 10 ms 10 ms loopback0.gw8.orl1.alter.net [137.39.8.117] 3 20 ms 40 ms 20 ms 165.at-1-0-0.xr1.atl1.alter.net [152.63.86.170] 4 10 ms 20 ms 20 ms 100.at-1-0-0.tr1.atl1.alter.net [146.188.232.82] 5 20 ms 31 ms 30 ms 109.at-5-0-0.tr1.dca6.alter.net [146.188.141.58] 6 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms 0.so-4-0-0.xr1.dca6.alter.net [152.63.11.102] 7 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms 0.so-1-3-0.xl1.dca6.alter.net [152.63.35.114] 8 30 ms 31 ms 30 ms pos6-0.br3.dca6.alter.net [152.63.38.117] 9 30 ms 30 ms 40 ms 204.255.174.74 10 30 ms 60 ms 31 ms mae-east-gsr.dc-core.netaxs.net [207.106.31.26] 11 120 ms 280 ms 310 ms mae-east.dc-core.netaxs.net [207.106.31.29] 12 30 ms 30 ms 40 ms dc-l3.dc-core.fddi0-0-100m.netaxs.net [207.106.127.102] 13 40 ms 40 ms 40 ms phl-l3.phl-core.h3-0-45m.netaxs.net [207.106.127.129] 14 30 ms 30 ms 40 ms l3-core1-oc3.sdfc.phl.netaxs.net [207.106.3.246] 15 60 ms 41 ms 40 ms core1-cnsh-gige-1.cnsh.phl.netaxs.net [207.106.0.10] 16 40 ms 40 ms 40 ms ns1.havenco.com [207.106.3.14]
Trace complete.
The www site is up too. Possibly you misunderstood their temporary outage?