distributed.net looking for a new ISP.

Trei, Peter ptrei at rsasecurity.com
Tue Mar 26 11:14:38 EST 2002


Distributed.net, which has won several of the RSA Secret Key
challenges, and is currently 73% of the way through the
RC5-64 contest, has lost it's ISP.

Peter Trei

>From their front page:

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We need your help! 

URGENT: We have recently learned that our long-standing
arrangement with Texas.Net (formerly Insync) would end at
noon, Friday, March 22. Through an agreement with Insync, we
were hosted at no charge for many years. Though we have
tried to make other arrangements with them or to continue
our current service until we can make other arrangements, in
the end we had no choice but to move.

Several of the Austin cows made a road trip Friday morning
to retrieve our equipment from their colocation facility.

We have no reason to complain about Texas.Net or their
current decision. As a business, they chose to donate to us
for a long time, and have now decided that they must
stop. In dbaker's words in a letter to Texas.Net: "Our
experience with Insync has been excellent; I've never been
happier with an Internet provider. I've recommended them
(and indirectly, Texas.Net) to everyone and even this
[situation] won't change that."

Though United Devices has kindly offered to colocate our
primary servers for a short time at no expense, we find
ourselves in the market for a new ISP. If any of our
participants work for a major ISP in Texas (preferably
within a few hours of Austin, but we're not picky), and
would be willing to donate colocation space and
connectivity, we would eagerly like to speak with you. Our
typical bandwidth usage is 3Mb/s, and reliable uptime is of
course essential.

Please e-mail dbaker at distributed.net if you think you may be
able to help us in this area.

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