On Wed, 03 Dec 2014, Janis Kracht wrote to mark lewis:

>> should return the same info... Someone messed up the Zone records 
>> over there maybe?

> no, that's actually normal in some cases... it just means that one 
> has to connect to a subdomain of fidonet.org for any traffic...

 JK> Ok, that would make sense, thanks for the wake up .

 :)

> in the past, i've set up corporate entities in the same manner 
> because that's what they wanted ;)

 JK> sure... as for instance z1.fidonet.org, etc. do each return an ip..

i can't get any of z[1234].fidonet.org to return anything other than NXDOMAIN
or unknown host...

*.fidonet.net all return the same address but that's the one that was grabbed
by the domain squatter, right? that's what lead to binkp.net being created for
looking up fidonet f.n.z addresses...

i gotta check why i'm unable to find fidonet.org subdomains :(

[time passes]

ok, i figured it out...

         fidonet.org      unknown host; mail handled by another;
     www.fidonet.org      85.94.204.146
      z1.fidonet.org      unknown host; no mail handlers;
  www.z1.fidonet.org      85.94.204.146
      z2.fidonet.org      unknown host; no mail handlers;
  www.z2.fidonet.org      unknown host; no mail handlers;
      z3.fidonet.org      unknown host; no mail handlers;
  www.z3.fidonet.org      unknown host; no mail handlers;
      z4.fidonet.org      unknown host; no mail handlers;
  www.z4.fidonet.org      unknown host; no mail handlers;

it is sad that no other zones have a web presence... i used to have a list of
nets with web presence but so many of them fell over dead that i haven't even
bothered to try to keep up with them any more :/

)\/(ark

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