Am 14. Jan, 2014 schwätzte ChasM so:

moin moin,

Blender's site comes up for me. I'm on better than average bandwidth :),
but the site seems fine.

It also comes up fine from elsewhere.

I'm getting the same IP from dns.

Check traceroute or mtr results for getting to it.

Ping is slow, but is working for me.

:) lufthans@boell:~/lokal/sandbox/LuftHans/cfengine2$ ping -c3
:www.blender.org
PING www.blender.org (82.94.226.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 82.94.226.104: icmp_req=1 ttl=55 time=157 ms
64 bytes from 82.94.226.104: icmp_req=2 ttl=55 time=147 ms
64 bytes from 82.94.226.104: icmp_req=3 ttl=55 time=148 ms

--- www.blender.org ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 10310ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 147.958/151.071/157.140/4.303 ms
:) lufthans@boell:~/lokal/sandbox/LuftHans/cfengine2$

Takes time to get to the Netherlands and back.

ciao,

der.hans

> Anybody know why www.blender.org is a sad site?
>
>
> charles@EleetCheesyStuff ~ $ ping www.blender.org
> PING www.blender.org (82.94.226.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
> ^C
> --- www.blender.org ping statistics ---
> 47 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 46332ms
>
>
> It's been offline for days now.  Seems it did this five years ago, too. 
>
> I'm trying to get an offline user manual wiki in .PDF format.
> My program now has (dead) links in its pulldown help menu.
>
> ? ? ?
>
>   (-:  Chas.M. :-)
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