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Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue an

  • From: Stephen Sprunk
  • Date: Thu Oct 01 23:30:46 1998

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 [email protected] (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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