Pingoat is currently down, with this message:
Pingoat has been taken down temporarily because of heavy DDOS attacks. Will be back soon.. (08:35 PM GMT – Feb 12 2006)
Until it’s up again, if you’re using it (either manually, or through RPC pings), you should switch to another multi-ping service, such as Ping-o-Matic or BlogFlux’s Pinger. Remember, pings are good.
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