[geeks] ohno

[Phil Stracchino]

On 10/17/20 1:25 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
> 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.  :-(


I'm also still running secondaries.  But, well, that depends on a
working primary.


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