[Info-vax] OPENVMS Hobbiest domain name invalid

[Henry Crun]

On 08/02/11 15:03, jbriggs444 wrote:
> On Feb 7, 9:16 am, Bob Gezelter<gezel... at rlgsc.com>  wrote:
>> On Feb 7, 7:15 am, abrsvc<dansabrservi... at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> I've been trying to connect to the hobbiest site for a few days and
>>> finally revceived a message that the domain name has expired.  What's
>>> up with that?
>>
>>> Dan
>>
>> Everyone,
>>
>> A check of the DNS (using NSLOOKUP), together with some background on
>> the domain registration process easily explains the parking page.
>>
>> When a domain registration expires, the DNS is often re-pointed to a
>> parking page, in accord with the domain registrars policies. The
>> original owner has a period of time to reclaim the domain (this deals
>> somewhat with the inevitable administrative errors, as well as people
>> being away from email for a bit -- for personal and technical reasons
>> -- consider all of the people who were cut off when various natural
>> and political events interfere with Internet access).
>>
>> For the next day, or couple of days, depending mainly upon your ISP's
>> name servers, the parking page may appear. This is as expected. The
>> DNS (at this instant) is showing that the expiry for records is 7
>> days, the refresh is 8 hours, and the TTL is 1 day. Until all of the
>> systems in the DNS food chain leading from your individual ISPs to
>> GoDaddy.com (the registrar for OPENVMSHOBBYIST.ORG) purge their cached
>> information, the parking page will appear. This is as expected. When
>> assisting clients with DNS changes, I always caution them about the
>> implications of this phenomenon.
>>
>> - Bob Gezelter,http://www.rlgsc.com
>
> Although the TTL on parking pages is one or two weeks, I believe that
> Bill Gunshannon has the more relevant explanation.  The domain was
> hijacked by a squatter going by an alias of Socrates Poole on the 6'th
> of this monh.
>
> Domain ID:D94413969-LROR
> Domain Name:OPENVMSHOBBYIST.ORG
> Created On:06-Feb-2003 03:20:39 UTC
> Last Updated On:07-Feb-2011 11:40:28 UTC
> Expiration Date:06-Feb-2012 03:20:39 UTC
> Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, Inc. (R91-LROR)
> Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED
> Status:CLIENT RENEW PROHIBITED
> Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
> Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
> Status:AUTORENEWPERIOD
> Registrant ID:CR30528930
> Registrant Name:Socrates Poole
> Registrant Street1:P.O. Box 74391
> Registrant City:Dallas
> Registrant State/Province:Texas
> Registrant Postal Code:75374
> Registrant Country:US
> Registrant Phone:+1.2147495600
> Registrant Email:socrates_poole at yahoo.com
>
> The registered DNS servers are ns63.domaincontrol.com and
> ns64.domaincontrol.com (no DNS cache problems for me).
> Those servers return an IP address of:
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> openvmshobbyist.org.    3600    IN      A       68.178.232.99
>
> My company has that IP address blacklisted.  According to
> ARIN, it belongs to GoDaddy.
>
> The web page there appears to be broken.  This particular
> squatter isn't successfully selling light bulbs, insurance,
> spamming software or porno.
>
> Per another post in this thread, the correct IP address would
> have been 173.74.245.163

As a temporary workaround, edit your hosts file and add the line
173.74.245.163	openvmshobbyist.org

or in VMS do:
TCPIP set host openvmshobbyist.org /address=173.74.245.163

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