[Cryptography] lavabit.com appears down...

[Viktor Dukhovni]

Does anyone know what happened to lavabit.com?  Has the plug been
pulled, or is it just enduring a transient outage?

None of the glue nameservers are reachable, and the most recent IP
address of the MX host is also down.  Traceroute to the last known IP
address of the MX host shows a loop:

    traceroute to 38.107.241.66 (38.107.241.66), 13 hops max, 60 byte packets
    ...
     6  ae-2-3604.ear1.Dallas3.Level3.net (4.69.210.185)  156.750 ms  156.766 ms  156.754 ms
     7  CYBERVERSE.ear1.Dallas3.Level3.net (4.35.186.82)  156.668 ms  129.779 ms  129.732 ms
     8  edge-gw01.dc2.hackingand.coffee (76.8.22.102)  129.730 ms  157.089 ms  157.099 ms
     9  gi0-0-0-5.nr11.b062167-0.dfw06.atlas.cogentco.com (38.122.58.89)  157.341 ms  157.314 ms  157.336 ms
    10  edge-gw01.dc2.hackingand.coffee (38.122.58.90)  157.013 ms  157.051 ms  157.012 ms
    11  gi0-0-0-5.nr11.b062167-0.dfw06.atlas.cogentco.com (38.122.58.89)  157.035 ms  156.623 ms  156.607 ms
    12  edge-gw01.dc2.hackingand.coffee (38.122.58.90)  156.308 ms  156.231 ms  156.276 ms
    13  gi0-0-0-5.nr11.b062167-0.dfw06.atlas.cogentco.com (38.122.58.89)  156.271 ms  156.516 ms  157.473 ms
    ...

The domain registration has not changed recently or expired.

    Domain Name: LAVABIT.COM
    Registry Domain ID: 170683923_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
    Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
    Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com
    Updated Date: 2016-02-03T23:29:37Z
    Creation Date: 2005-06-15T17:51:40Z
    Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2021-06-15T17:51:40Z
    Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC

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    Viktor.