The SCO Group, Inc. will use
www.thescogroup.com as an alternate web site while www.sco.com remains under a denial of service attack from machines infected with the My Doom worm, the company said this morning. The URL is expected to serve as an interm site for SCO through Feb. 12, when the DDoS is expected to conclude. "SCO has developed layers of contingency plans to communicate with our valued customers, resellers, developers, partners and shareholders," asid Jeff Carlon, the company's director of worldwide IT infrastructure, who called the new domain "the first step" in its planning.
sco.com actually resolves to the same ip address as www.thescogroup.com.
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sco.com has address 216.250.128.21
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www.thescogroup.com has address 216.250.128.21
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