[geeks] Here is a new way of thwarting piracy :)

Bill Bradford geeks at sunhelp.org
Sat May 26 00:33:35 CDT 2001


On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 01:16:56AM -0500, Tugrul Galatali wrote:
> 	It appears that somebody in charge of NYU's name servers decided to
> make their servers a primary for napster.com and put in a blank zone. Or at 
> least thats what it looks like to me. Imagine my mild surprise when 
> www.napster.com wouldn't come up... it felt like the end of an era.
> 	Time to switch my laptop's DNS servers to uncensored ones...
> 	(I do run a private server at home, but given a dynamic IP, I rather
> have the convenience of a public one on my laptop)

Did that once at a company I worked for - made the nameserver
authoritative for apple.com, put up a fake web page, and make
our poor mac tech think they were going out of business. 8-)

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX



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