Hoperf radio modules and DNS

On a sunny day (Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:33:07 -0000) it happened "markp" wrote in :

I get an error message too, but: # host

# host hoperf.com hoperf.com has address 121.199.253.175 hoperf.com mail is handled by 10 mx.hoperf.com.

So, typing 121.199.253.175 gets a Chinese site. With very little info.

Thanks for confirming. Yes, I actually found that site too while doing a lookup, some wierd Chinese homepage! I'm hoping they have just changed servers and DNS is currently broken, and that they haven't gone out of business. This radio module is the best and cheapest I've found, it's great. Fingers crossed...

Mark.

On a sunny day (Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:56:33 -0000) it happened "markp" wrote in :

I have read that China has decided that all personal homepages are no longer allowed, and that all company websites must be licenced (yes no joke). It is possible that they are in the process of applying for a license. Talk about freedom, what a jerks. Just hope and fight that we do not get the same crap here. If I was the US I would simply close the borders for Chinese products, time for buy American, but anyways, Mao .. revolution, things may change fast in China.... LOL

Don't worry too hard, yet. China is the country that orders the "people's army" to drive tanks over the people. The US has a lot of sliding down to do before we get that bad.

We'll just decline in other ways...

Traditionally, societies with large middle classes are the most likely to undergo democratic revolutions. Closing the boarders with China would encourage a bunch of dirt-poor peasants and a bunch of super-rich, with no middle class in between that is both educated enough to know what democracy is and stomped on enough to want it.

(IMHO, YMMV, definitive answers only given if you let me have 1000 universes to play with, etc.)

Coming to your neighborhood sooner than you think.

Oh? You mean like Obama envisions the US... Obama and his elitists government employees, union leaders and enforcement goons on top... everyone else a paisano?

...Jim Thompson

Phew, it's back. Funnily none of the online nslookup services could find it either using their own servers, but at least my DNS servers can again. Maybe an outage at their hosting company (?).

Mark.

On a sunny day (Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:08:18 -0000) it happened "markp" wrote in :

The same happens with my site when I switch the server off, as the name server, the authoritive one, that tells everybody where my site is (its IP address), also runs on this same server. That is the way DNS can work, not everybody needs an ISP to run a 'named'. A bit strange that hoperf.com (without the www) was resolved though. Could also be their named was victim of some attack. BTW 'named' is a program.

Interesting. Remember hoperf.com was resolved to 121.199.253.175, and entering that into a browser got some wierd homepage? Well it is still resolved to that address, but if you type

Mark.

On a sunny day (Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:01:05 -0000) it happened "markp" wrote in :

Yes, different machine. IIRC on a MS windows machine it sais something like 'here goes your homepage' if you had the personal web server running but did not make any pages. Just a placeholder perhsps. Same if you install Apache. Yes i tis Apache, at e;ast on the machine they use now:

grml: ~ # telnet 121.199.253.175 80 Trying 121.199.253.175... Connected to 121.199.253.175. Escape character is '^]'

(Typed anything, wrong request) http:

Method Not Implemented http: to /index.php not supported.

Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat) Server at url4.hichina.com Port 80

Connection closed by foreign host.

All of China runs Linux :-)

On a sunny day (Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:01:05 -0000) it happened "markp" wrote in :

grml: ~ # telnet 121.199.253.175 80 Trying 121.199.253.175... Connected to 121.199.253.175. Escape character is '^]'

(Typed anything, wrong request) http:

Method Not Implemented http: to /index.php not supported.

Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat) Server at url4.hichina.com Port 80

Connection closed by foreign host.

All of China runs Linux :-)

You can see teeh server is url4.hichina.com, so hichina.com could be the ISP.

So do a whois hichina.com and you know all about it.

(I just did, but think I should not publish it here, Verisign has lost of legal text in the reply...).