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ercoerco Posts: 20,256
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One minute I'm surfing the forum and suddenly I see I'm at http://forums.scribblerrobot.com/discussion/161926/28044-laser-range-finder . Is that a mirror site, and how did I get teleported?

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  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    From whois:

    Registrant Name: PARALLAX, INC.
    Registrant Organization: PARALLAX, INC.
    Registrant Street: 599 MENLO DR # 100
    Registrant City: ROCKLIN
    Registrant State/Province: CA

    What goes on here ?
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    Hmm...

    $ ping forums.scribblerrobot.com
    PING forums.scribblerrobot.com (67.104.29.60) 56(84) bytes of data.
    ...
    $ ping forums.parallax.com
    PING forums.parallax.com (67.104.29.60) 56(84) bytes of data.

    Same server!

    I can even sign in there.

    Sounds like a security problem waiting to happen.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    It used to be Parallax's site for old blue, I went there many times. Just surprised to see it today when I wasn't expecting it.
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    Cool! It's a parallel universe!

    This comment was entered from Scribblerrobot using my Parallax sign-on, of course!
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    @rick: Hey you, get offa my cloud! I found it first!
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    If it is in a cloud, it may not really be me, just my virtual me.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    Ah ha, never heard of it before.
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    Has not been used for a few years, but still registered....interesting.
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    erco wrote: »
    One minute I'm surfing the forum and suddenly I see I'm at http://forums.scribblerrobot.com/discussion/161926/28044-laser-range-finder . Is that a mirror site, and how did I get teleported?

    Thanks for the heads up erco. Something is not right here. I made a quick call to Parallax and it is being looked at.

  • Jim EwaldJim Ewald Posts: 733
    Heater. wrote: »
    Hmm...

    $ ping forums.scribblerrobot.com
    PING forums.scribblerrobot.com (67.104.29.60) 56(84) bytes of data.
    ...
    $ ping forums.parallax.com
    PING forums.parallax.com (67.104.29.60) 56(84) bytes of data.

    Same server!

    I can even sign in there.

    Sounds like a security problem waiting to happen.

    What you are really seeing here is the result of a few DNS settings. A while back, we decided to continue the conversation on the Scribbler here in the main forums site. We updated our DNS to allow forums.scribblerrobot.com to resolve to the same IP Address as the main forum site. The web server at 67.104.29.60 will respond to either host name.

    This does mean that there that there is really only one site. No one is actually logging into the old site because it does not exist. This also means that the site is not properly informing your browser to use 'forums.parallax.com' when you arrive here via the old ScribblerRobot.com address. That will be addressed today.

  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    Thanks Jim.

    Thought it was suspect.

    Jim
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    Do I win a Toddler robot for being first to spot this anomaly? Or must I settle for another Quadrover?
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2015-08-19 18:26
    Ironically, I was thinking that I would like to have ownership of the www.broken.com to amuse myself.

    And when I tried to use WHOIS to locate ownership, I got a lot of nonsense. I also noticed in a Google search for "whois broken" that I got a lot of discussion that WHOIS is broken.

    I never did find out who is www.broken.com.

    And then I opened this morning Taipei Times and there was an article about how the USA is delaying turning the who internet name management over to international concerns for a year.

    So WHOIS may be broken.

    ++++++++++=

    And yes, it is beginning to worry my that I can find these 'Twilight Zone' coincidences on the internet so easily.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2015-08-19 17:27
    Loopy,

    Here we go, name address, phone number email: 
    $ whois broken.com
....
Domain Name: broken.com
Registry Domain ID: 2175314_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.moniker.com
Registrar URL: http://www.moniker.com
Updated Date: 2015-07-19T02:07:01.0Z
Creation Date: 1998-07-31T04:00:00.0Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2016-07-30T04:00:00.0Z
Registrar: Moniker Online Services LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 228
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@moniker.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.9546071294
Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
Registry Registrant ID: 
Registrant Name: Moniker Privacy Services
Registrant Organization: Moniker Privacy Services
Registrant Street: 2320 NE 9th St, Second Floor
Registrant City: Fort Lauderdale
Registrant State/Province: FL
Registrant Postal Code: 33304
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.8006886311
Registrant Phone Ext: 
Registrant Fax: +1.9545859186
Registrant Fax Ext: 
Registrant Email: 3b0a0f8df192371fa8297da1656f21626aafc96f390873eb1bb43d2eb5f054be@broken.com.whoisproxy.org
Registry Admin ID: 
Admin Name: Moniker Privacy Services
Admin Organization: Moniker Privacy Services
Admin Street: 2320 NE 9th St, Second Floor
Admin City: Fort Lauderdale
Admin State/Province: FL
Admin Postal Code: 33304
Admin Country: US
Admin Phone: +1.8006886311
Admin Phone Ext: 
Admin Fax: +1.9545859186
Admin Fax Ext: 
Admin Email: 3b0a0f8df192371fa8297da1656f21626aafc96f390873eb1bb43d2eb5f054be@broken.com.whoisproxy.org
...

    Of course if the website at www.broken.com was not broken there would be something wrong, right? :)
  • Jim EwaldJim Ewald Posts: 733
    I added some Apache magic to the configuration files such that forums.scribblerrobot.com properly redirects to forums.parallax.com. Please kick the tires on this and report back any issue you find with the sribblerrobot.com redirection.
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2015-08-19 17:53
    Webpage is not available. (May be too soon).
  • SeairthSeairth Posts: 2,474
    Tested. Redirect worked as expected.
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2015-08-19 18:35
    Obviously, I am spending way too much time following Parallax Forums into the wee hours toward dawn.

    We will just have to wonder who Moniker Privacy Services might be. Visits to www.broken.com seem to return nothing a lowercase b, not even a 440 notice.

    I need to get back into my FPGA projects and let the rest of Parallax Forums go.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    Lower case "b", that is exactly what it returns. View the page source.

    On the other hand, there is an empty shell of some kind of website here: http://www.broken.com/albums/
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