FYI sunhelp.org down

[Grant Taylor]

On 10/14/20 4:08 AM, Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,

> I posted to <rescue at sunhelp.org> and saw my message got stuck in 
> the mail queue.

When did you send your message?  I'm trying to judge when the problem 
started.

> Upon a further inspection I saw that the domain has expired along with 
> `mrbill.net' where the nameservers used to reside and both have been 
> taken by someone else, taking the name service down for `sunhelp.org'.

Eh ... sunhelp.org doesn't expire for a couple of years yet.  The 
problem is that it uses mrbill.net for DNS, which did expire and seems 
to have been taken over by undesirables.

> I can still reach Bill Bradford's personal page when I connect to 
> the server by its IPv4 address at: <http://184.94.207.190/>.

Thanks to John's quick thinking, it's now possible to hot wire things so 
that you can get to sunhelp.org, et al.

The hot wiring that I did seems to have been sufficient to allow email 
to flow to sunhelp.org.  I've since sent a message to a few people 
inquiring about the current state of the ongoing rescue operation.

The last I knew, some of Bill's co-workers were going to take things over.

If anyone cares to similarly hot wire things on their end, I configured 
my recursive DNS servers to forward Bill's domains to John K.'s DNS 
server (192.80.49.4).  I also configured my email server to route 
sunhelp.org directly to ohno.mrbill.net.



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Grant. . . .
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