[geeks] ohno

[Grant Taylor]

On 10/17/20 7:14 AM, Mouse wrote:
> I don't know if this will actually reach anyone,

Yes, it did reach at least me.

> or if it does whether anyone will know the answers, but in case....

I'm replying specifically to provide positive acknowledgement that your
message to the mailing list made it out to (at least some of) the world.

> Back years ago, I had ssh access to ohno.mrbill.net.  I tried to
> use it, just now, after rigging my DNS to give the correct address,
> and I'm getting ETIMEDOUT.  (I was hoping to find files containing
> the DNS zones, so I could snapshot all the data.)

That would have been real nice.

> Did the machine get moved behind new filtering?  Are the people who
> are supposed to be running Mr. Bill's stuff now just asleep at the
> switch, or what?

I don't know.  I'm assuming good intent.

This may be a case of thinking that sunhelp.org was safe and not
realizing that it was dependent on mrbill.net.

> And, in particular, is there anything I can do to help?  I've got DNS
> running for mrbill.net and sunhelp.org on my DNS server, but that
> in itself won't help anyone else.  (As said, though, I'd be happy
> to be primary for anyone who wants, though it seems doubtful to me
> that there's anyone here competent to set up secondary service but
> not competent to set up their own primary.)

I have tried reaching out to a few different people a few different
ways.  I've not heard anything back.  I'm afraid that SunHelp and the
rest of Bill's domains may go quietly into the night, without any rage.  :-(



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