
Obscure gets a Gigabit Internet upgrade
I'm pleased to announce that The Obscure Organization is now running on a new Verizon FiOS gigabit-class fiber optic Internet connection. This represents a major speed upgrade from the 75 megabit Verizon FiOS connection we have been running for the past few years.
As a part of this transition, the main IP address for tiamat.obscure.org has changed to 71.163.169.18. If you have IP address whitelists that reference obscure.org, you may need to update them. You proably will not have to change DNS server registrations, as I have already updated the IP address for dns1.obscure.org with Network Solutions, the registrar responsible for posting the glue record for dns1.obscure.org to the parent domain.
We've come a long way since 1995 - when we had a full-time SLIP connection (the predecessor to PPP) running at 28Kbps. The new connection is approximately 35,000 times faster than the one we started with 25 years ago!