airvpn.org down?

[zb/XSZHHyd$HM'<z'oc"vc]T(O 8]

I'm not entirely sure what's going on. I can't access airvpn.org from the clearnet (currently posting via Tor.)

DNS does not even seem to return an A or AAAA record currently. I tried my own recursive resolver which is my default and various public DNS servers.
It came to my attention about an hour ago.

Are you aware of this and is there an estimate for when it is going to be fixed?

[PWolverine 14]

Noticed the same thing.  Tried to get to Airvpn.org to grab the latest beta software that was posted about yesterday.   Couldn't get it to it without the VPN running. 
Appears to be down when trying to get to the website without a VPN running.

[fhopper 1]

$ dig dns1.airvpn.org @8.8.8.8 +short
$ dig dns1.airvpn.org @1.1.1.1 +short
$ dig gb3.vpn.airdns.org @dns1.airvpn.org +short
dig: couldn't get address for 'dns1.airvpn.org': failure

[fhopper 1]

https://dnschecker.org/#A/dns1.airvpn.org


 

[fhopper 1]

The problem seems to have been fixed now, but kind of remarkable that no one from AirVPN chimed in on this. Is there a different place they announce active outages/issues that they're working to resolve?
 

[Staff 10477]

Hello!

The problem seems resolved now. Apparently it was caused by the authoritative nameservers of airvpn.org, the only ones that we do not operate directly. It looks like it was limited in time as we did not detect a significant loss in the flow so when we analyzed the situation to send out announcements the problem was already resolved almost everywhere.

In such cases, you can rely on airvpn.info (a totally separated mirror: different machines, different nameservers) to get informed or access the services, as well as on AirVPN Twitter account.

There was no impact on VPN services and DDNS as the nameservers for other services are different.

We are monitoring the situation.

Kind regards