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Old 08-04-2013, 06:06 PM
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Originally Posted by multiweb View Post
The Planet IS Softlayer. Used to be EV1 before Rackshack in the 90s. The Planet bought EV1, Softlayer bought The Planet. Worst ISP ever IMHO. I used them all in the past. Boxes hacking each other from within the same network even racks.
I hadn't seen that takeover Marc. Another vaguely dodgy ISP vanishes down the backside of the universe called The Planet.

Another dodginess hint:

$ host www.telescopegoods.com
www.telescopegoods.com has address 208.43.176.153

$ host 208.43.176.153
153.176.43.208.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer 208.43.176.153-static.reverse.softlayer.com.
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