[wplug] wplug hijacked?

Michael H. Semcheski mhsemcheski at gmail.com
Sun May 27 08:42:25 EDT 2007


FYI, the DNS for www.wplug.org is still not working.  This prevents the
mailman interface from working correctly.

 dig a.ns.joker.com www.wplug.org returns 69.39.226.204, whereas

dig a.ns.joker.com wplug.org returns 128.2.194.8.

Mike

On 5/26/07, Beth Lynn <bethlynn at wplug.org> wrote:
>
> OK folks here is what is going on.
>
> There was an outage of most of wplug's IT resources yesterday
>
> This includes:
> All mailing lists
> The website, www.wplug.org and erie.wplug.org
> The wiki, wplug.ece.cmu.edu
> email service for the @wplug.org domain
>
> Not effected:
> The irc channel #wplug on irc.freenode.net
> The docs mirror ldp.wplug.org
>
> In response to this outage, I decided that we need to switch to another
> DNS provider ASAP. In my haste, made a mistake when migrating the DNS to
> joker.com. I failed to save the name records therefore some users this
> morning saw a generic site from joker.com and not our website. I
> apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
>
> To be perfectly clear, wplug.org is not now or has it ever been
> "hijacked." The ip address of www.wplug.org is 128.2.194.8 as it has been
> for years. Joker.com has been our domain registrar for several years as
> well. The only thing that has changed since Thursday is that the DNS
> servers for wplug.org are now with joker.com.
>
> Thanks,
> Beth Lynn Eicher
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