Deru dead?

[b***@gmail.com]

Anyone have any idea if Deru went out of business? My parents still have them as an ISP and their email has been out for over a week. Deru's not answering their phone and their voicemail is fill.

[Paul Wylie]

Post by b***@gmail.com
Anyone have any idea if Deru went out of business? My parents still
have them as an ISP and their email has been out for over a week.
Deru's not answering their phone and their voicemail is fill.

It sure looks bad, but parts of the company are still up: www.deru.com
is down, but support.deru.net is up. In addition, the MX records for
deru.net (para.deru.net--140.99.9.2) and deru.com (mail.deru.com--
140.99.30.130) are both up, and you can telnet to them on port 25.

--Paul
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[b***@MIX.COM]

Post by Paul Wylie

Post by b***@gmail.com
Anyone have any idea if Deru went out of business? My parents still
have them as an ISP and their email has been out for over a week.
Deru's not answering their phone and their voicemail is fill.

Yep...

Post by Paul Wylie
It sure looks bad, but parts of the company are still up: www.deru.com
is down, but support.deru.net is up. In addition, the MX records for
deru.net (para.deru.net--140.99.9.2) and deru.com (mail.deru.com--
140.99.30.130) are both up, and you can telnet to them on port 25.

A couple weeks or so ago their Level 3 (backup) connection quit
working. I could still reach them via Puregig/Highwinds (their
main upstream provider).

So, I sent them a note, and got this response -

| <***@deru.com>: host mail.deru.com[140.99.30.130] said:
| 451 Temporary local problem - please try later (in reply to RCPT TO command)

But, after five days, my MTA gave up.

I have a (comped) shell account there, that I use to work on the
Linux version of my version of the tin newsreader. Looking at who
has logged in when, I see the last time Eric Kearney (Darin Wayrynen's
partner or at least number two guy - Deru is Darin's ISP) logged in
was Wed Jul 25 14:06 - 18:08. I used to see him there pretty much
every day.

Anyway, then Deru's name resolvers went missing. Not a big deal
for me, as I use IP addresses in my scripts. The shell host has
stayed up, and is still up right now -

23:41:32 up 315 days, 5:11, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Both users are me.....

Then -- just a few days ago their L3 connection came back up, and
so did their DNS resolvers. And, mail to them is at least getting
delivered. I sent another note to support, and got an automatic
response with a ticket number. But, after more than a day now,
nothing further. I can no longer log in to their trouble ticket
system, nor, for that matter, their news server. I haven't used
mail there in about ten years, and am not even sure where it lives
now (I think they moved it off the shell host about 8 years ago).

So -- this is still quite a mystery to me. I am now doing daily
off site backups just to be sure.....

Looking at Darin's web site - http://Wayrynen.US - I see this note
at the top of the page [sic] -

| Darin Wayrynen & Eric Kearney closed Deru Communications Aug. 31, 2012
| without notice nor further assiatance to any customers. Yes, Aug 31.2012

I rather doubt Darin put it there - but, someone certainly did. Heh.

I will definitely miss them if they are gone - they are good people,
and the services they provided were quite good, too. If/when I find
out what's up, I'll post another note here.......

Billy Y..

[a***@MIX.COM]

Post by Paul Wylie
It sure looks bad, but parts of the company are still up: www.deru.com
is down

It's actually up, just not reachable via L3. Hard to say why,
though. I don't know how their LAN is/was configured.

Anyway, the real reason for this followup is to provide a pointer -

| Any other (former) Deru.com users?
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r27658261-ARIZONA-Any-other-former-Deru.com-users-

Sadly, it does not look good.

Billy Y..

[a***@MIX.COM]

Post by a***@MIX.COM

Post by Paul Wylie
It sure looks bad, but parts of the company are still up: www.deru.com
is down

It's actually up, just not reachable via L3. Hard to say why,
though. I don't know how their LAN is/was configured.

It's still up, altough now it's being served from Linode...

The shell host has been coming and going, but it's been mostly
up. I'm typing this on it now. I'll definitely miss it if/when
it's gone for good, as its net connectivity is nothing less than
stunning. I can read news on a server on the other side of the
country just like I was in the same room with it.

I am reminded of a ghost ship..... It's still cruising, but
who knows for how long. Heh.

The mail server has been mostly down. At this point I'd be
surprised to see it come back up. It could have gotten filled
with spam and choked - I was definitely getting plenty of it.

Post by a***@MIX.COM
Sadly, it does not look good.

The bad news, however, is in occasionally looking around trying
to find out what happened, I stumbled on these -

http://mugshots.com/US-Counties/Arizona/Maricopa-County-AZ/Darin-Wayrynen.58026809.html
http://www.jailbase.com/en/arrested/az-mcso/2013-05-11/darin-wayrynen-p971204

I don't know if it's the same Darin from Deru, as I've never
met him, but what are the chances of two guys with the same
name living in Maricopa County? Not much, I suppose....

Billy Y..

[b***@gmail.com]

Post by b***@gmail.com
Anyone have any idea if Deru went out of business?

They may have hit hard times for a minute there, but I'm still getting SPAM from deru.net so they still have something going on.