On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > > I posted to <res...@sunhelp.org> and saw my message got stuck in the mail > > queue. > > When did you send your message? I'm trying to judge when the problem started.
Last Mon, Oct 12th. The last message I received from the mailing list was on Oct 1st. WHOIS has this though: Domain Name: MRBILL.NET Registry Domain ID: 1373333_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namecheap.com Registrar URL: http://www.namecheap.com Updated Date: 2020-10-11T07:01:46Z Creation Date: 1996-10-11T04:00:00Z Registry Expiry Date: 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z Registrar: NameCheap, Inc. Registrar IANA ID: 1068 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: ab...@namecheap.com Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6613102107 Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited Name Server: DNS101.REGISTRAR-SERVERS.COM Name Server: DNS102.REGISTRAR-SERVERS.COM DNSSEC: unsigned URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/ so I take it the original domain went down on Oct 11th at ~7am; OTOH sunhelp.org itself has yet two years to go (as you have also observed). > > I can still reach Bill Bradford's personal page when I connect to the server > > by its IPv4 address at: <http://184.94.207.190/>. > > Thanks to John's quick thinking, it's now possible to hot wire things so that > you can get to sunhelp.org, et al. > > The hot wiring that I did seems to have been sufficient to allow email to flow > to sunhelp.org. I've since sent a message to a few people inquiring about the > current state of the ongoing rescue operation. > > The last I knew, some of Bill's co-workers were going to take things over. > > If anyone cares to similarly hot wire things on their end, I configured my > recursive DNS servers to forward Bill's domains to John K.'s DNS server > (192.80.49.4). I also configured my email server to route sunhelp.org > directly to ohno.mrbill.net. I suppose the list server relies on the same nameservers in a way that prevents e-mail distribution from happening. I have since resubmitted the same message manually to sunhelp.org's SMTP receiver (the original message is still in the outgoing mail queue: smtp/sunhelp.org: B/W/23993316: (196 tries, expires in 2d17h) smtp; 466 (No DNS response for host: sunhelp.org; h_errno=0) ) to see what happens and got a DSN ack even, but the message did not get through. So local hot wiring of name resolution (which I suppose could be as easy as adding a /etc/hosts entry rather than going through the hoops of setting up a manipulated name server) might be good enough to get at the web pages, but not to get the list going. Maciej