Domain Name System is busted. DNS is what takes a name like "blog.badtux.net" and turns it into a numeric address that can look up the actual computer that corresponds to that name (since computers only understand numbers, not names).
Sigh. Not surprised at all. This is another protocol, like Telnet protocol, that originated in the days back when all Internet sites on the planet Earth could be counted on you and your best friends' fingers and toes and were run by defense contractors or universities with defense contracts. ISCC, the makers of BIND (which is the DNS server used by most Linux and Unix vendors and by MacOS) claim that the problem is inherent in the DNS protocol and cannot be fixed.
So in other words, when you go to blog.badtux.net there's no way of knowing that you're really going to blog.badtux.net. You could be going to someone else's malicious site that then hijacks your computer and sends you to a dozen porno sites promising photos of Hillary Swank and Scarlett Johansson nude. If you click on this blog and that's what happens to you, you know that's what happened. After all, penguins have no interest in pictures of nude monkeys...
-- Badtux the Internet Penguin
I still can't find a fix for the problem I'm having, and am considering trying to change URIs to see if I get better results.
ReplyDeleteThis doesn't affect other .US sites, and it doesn't affect other sites on the same host, so I can only assume that it is a problem with my domain registry.
The whole system is a major PITA.
OT: I threw that comment of yours into moderation, in case you want to delete it.
I like to look at pictures of nude female monkeys. As long as they are just being artful. Don't care to look at their monkey vagina's.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty careful where I surf on the web and have never had any trouble.
Pigs looking at monkeys generally don't have any problems surfing the net.
ReplyDeleteYou could be going to someone else's malicious site that then hijacks your computer and sends you to a dozen porno sites promising photos of Hillary Swank and Scarlett Johansson nude.
ReplyDeleteSounds more interesting than pictures of cats in cardboard boxes! Although maybe if you shaved The Mighty Fang in certain places...
Cats are more interesting than monkeys. Cats are mysterious. Monkeys, on the other hand, hoot and howl and throw feces at each other and are about as mysterious as a rock falling when you drop it from your hand.
ReplyDeleteI say this sincerely, not because my cats threatened to use me as a substitute meat in their next helping of Tuna Helper if I didn't say it. For true!
-- Badtux the Cat-owned Penguin
...you mean this is the real Badtux the Snarky Penguin site?!!1?
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