So here’s what I put up with today, typical…<\/p>\n
Realtime backups, redundancy, failover… all fantasies I can’t afford…<\/p>\n
UPDATE:<\/strong> Lost power in the morning again 2 days later, same basic scenario.<\/p>\n UPDATE:<\/strong> Wow, this one really sucked. Somebody somewhere poisoned DNS records so that my main domain name pointed to a “revenue generator” – this site that looks like a yahoo index but is really a list of advertisers. I noticed this at 12:30am, right when I was going to bed. Little guys are pretty powerless against this – I don’t run a DNS server and have no control over anyone else’s except for the “DNS Management” i pay for from my registrar (dotster.com). I can seed my semi-static IP, and they update their DNS server. It usually takes 24 hours to propogate. When I saw the problem, I emailed dotster and they admitted they were having problems. It was fixed in a short amount of time. But it was a bit humbling – the internet really is a inter-dependent community. I use a DNS server of my ISP (RoadRunner). I suppose RoadRunner could decide that they will not allow DNS records that point to their internal network (which mine does), so I am grateful that things generally work for me.<\/p>\n Here is the poisoned DNS information, from RoadRunner’s DNS server and from Dotster’s.<\/p>\n Hello Dotster!<\/p>\n Looks like someone is hijacking my domain name with bogus DNS records?<\/p>\n ——————– Non-authoritative answer: My IP is 71.70.165.69<\/a>.<\/p>\n Even your nameservers are returning the bogus “canonical name”. Help! TIA…<\/p>\n ———————– thedigitalmachine.com<\/a> canonical name = wc.traffic.puredns.com<\/a>. UPDATE: <\/strong>Holy host-horror, Batman!\u00c2\u00a0 It was Dotster.\u00c2\u00a0 Sounds like they were to blame, and also responsible for the fix.\u00c2\u00a0 Hrmph.<\/p>\n Registrant: Domain servers in listed order: So here’s what I put up with today, typical…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chatter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
\n> [root@thedigitalmachine ~]# nslookup
\n> thedigitalmachine.com<\/a>
\nServer: 24.25.5.150<\/a>
\nAddress: 24.25.5.150#53<\/p>\n
\nthedigitalmachine.com<\/a> canonical name = wc.traffic.puredns.com<\/a>.
\nwc.traffic.puredns.com<\/a> canonical name = wc.funnel.revenuedirect.com.akadns.net<\/a>.
\nName: wc.funnel.revenuedirect.com.akadns.net<\/a>
\nAddress: 69.25.47.165<\/a>
\n——————–<\/p>\n
\n[root@thedigitalmachine ~]# nslookup
\n> server ns1.nameresolve.com<\/a>
\nDefault server: ns1.nameresolve.com<\/a>
\nAddress: 64.94.117.196#53
\n> thedigitalmachine.com<\/a>
\nServer: ns1.nameresolve.com<\/a>
\nAddress: 64.94.117.196#53<\/p>\n
\nName: thedigitalmachine.com<\/a>
\nAddress: 71.70.165.69<\/a>
\n>
\n——————–<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nDotster.com<\/a>
\n8100 NE Parkway Drive
\nSuite 300
\nVancouver, WA 98662
\nUS
\nRegistrar: DOTSTER
\nDomain Name: REVENUEDIRECT<\/strong>.COM<\/a>
\nCreated on: 28-FEB-04
\nExpires on: 28-FEB-08
\nLast Updated on: 18-NOV-05
\nAdministrative, Technical Contact:
\n, Dotster Inc. REVENUEDIRECT<\/strong>.COMmdi19A@privacypost.com<\/a>
\nDotster.com<\/a>
\n8100 NE Parkway Drive
\nSuite 300
\nVancouver, WA 98662
\nUS
\n360-253-2210
\n360-253-4234<\/p>\n
\nNS1.PUREDNS.COM<\/a>
\nNS2.PUREDNS.COM<\/a>
\nEnd of Whois Information<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"