Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue an
Mr. Shein:
You know, Mr Gullichsen, you can answer every complaint you get with "why didn't you tell us this before!", but it's not fooling anyone.
I don't answer every complaint with that reply, nor did I answer your complaint in that manner. What I did was to bring to your attention Tonic's published antispam policy, and to request that if you were having problems with SPAM involving any .TO domain names, that you inform us as to what those names are, so we can deal with them in accordance with our policy.
So why was the Consulate's web page changed from an advertisement for a software company to something having to do with the Kingdom of Tonga in the past couple of hours?
We recently moved a number of servers to a colocated facility for improved bandwidth. The mail POP for the Consulate was one of these, and now runs on a machine supporting a number of virtual IP addresses. There is no web page for the Consulate, and as a result of the fact that there was no explicit VirtualHost directive for sfconsulate.gov.to in the Apache config file, web accesses defaulted to another virtual IP on the same machine, which is that of a software company. As a result of your discovering this, I recently added a VirtualHost directive so that accesses to port 80 on the sfconsulate.gov.to IP address return the Tonga Visitor's Bureau home page, www.vacations.tvb.gov.to Thank you for pointing this out. You may note that the Tonga Visitor's Bureau home page also prominently features an advertisement for Tonic. This is intentional. Regards, - Eric Gullichsen Tonic Corporation Kingdom of Tonga Network Information Center http://www.tonic.to Email: egullich@tonic.to
Look, Mr Gullichsen, why don't you answer the underlying question and explain why you keep registering domains for these ADULTSIGHTS.COM criminals to use, sometimes more than once per day? It has to be generating hundreds of complaints daily. It's been going on today under yet another .to domain. So which is it? Gross incompetence, negligence, or complicity? I don't think saying that you'll remove any spammer domain when you hear a complaint and then NOT saying (and a minute later you'll give them a new domain to use) is a satisfactory answer. But thank you for affirming that, as I said, the web page for the Consulate of Tonga was changed today from an ad for a software company to something to do with Tonga. On October 2, 1998 at 09:15 egullich@tonic.to (Eric Gullichsen) wrote:
Mr. Shein:
You know, Mr Gullichsen, you can answer every complaint you get with "why didn't you tell us this before!", but it's not fooling anyone.
I don't answer every complaint with that reply, nor did I answer your complaint in that manner. What I did was to bring to your attention Tonic's published antispam policy, and to request that if you were having problems with SPAM involving any .TO domain names, that you inform us as to what those names are, so we can deal with them in accordance with our policy.
So why was the Consulate's web page changed from an advertisement for a software company to something having to do with the Kingdom of Tonga in the past couple of hours?
We recently moved a number of servers to a colocated facility for improved bandwidth. The mail POP for the Consulate was one of these, and now runs on a machine supporting a number of virtual IP addresses. There is no web page for the Consulate, and as a result of the fact that there was no explicit VirtualHost directive for sfconsulate.gov.to in the Apache config file, web accesses defaulted to another virtual IP on the same machine, which is that of a software company.
As a result of your discovering this, I recently added a VirtualHost directive so that accesses to port 80 on the sfconsulate.gov.to IP address return the Tonga Visitor's Bureau home page, www.vacations.tvb.gov.to Thank you for pointing this out.
You may note that the Tonga Visitor's Bureau home page also prominently features an advertisement for Tonic.
This is intentional.
Regards,
- Eric Gullichsen Tonic Corporation Kingdom of Tonga Network Information Center http://www.tonic.to Email: egullich@tonic.to
I have NEVER heard Barry less rational. Could someone who knows him well please stop by and make sure he's not been kidnapped and replaced by: Karl Den..^H^H^H Rump Glow a Replicant ....? -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
You forgot to add "Jim Fleming". -scooter
I have NEVER heard Barry less rational.
Could someone who knows him well please stop by and make sure he's not been kidnapped and replaced by:
Karl Den..^H^H^H Rump Glow a Replicant ....?
-- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
Gosh, this is exactly what my ten seconds of observation earlier this afternoon told me. And that's with ZERO connection to the entire Tonga matter, except that I am (along with other NANOG readers) getting very tired of your increasingly emotional and irrational claims. Please take your ranting to domain-policy, which is a more appropriate forum for your discussion. This in about politics, not operations. Stephen (not my employer) Barry Shein wrote:
But thank you for affirming that, as I said, the web page for the Consulate of Tonga was changed today from an ad for a software company to something to do with Tonga.
On October 2, 1998 at 09:15 egullich@tonic.to (Eric Gullichsen) wrote:
We recently moved a number of servers to a colocated facility for improved bandwidth. The mail POP for the Consulate was one of these, and now runs on a machine supporting a number of virtual IP addresses. There is no web page for the Consulate, and as a result of the fact that there was no explicit VirtualHost directive for sfconsulate.gov.to in the Apache config file, web accesses defaulted to another virtual IP on the same machine, which is that of a software company.
As a result of your discovering this, I recently added a VirtualHost directive so that accesses to port 80 on the sfconsulate.gov.to IP address return the Tonga Visitor's Bureau home page, www.vacations.tvb.gov.to Thank you for pointing this out.
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