[20007] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Thu Oct 1 15:31:02 1998
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 15:12:27 -0400
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
To: John Harkin <jh@harkin.net>
Cc: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <l03130301b239732f6b36@[206.184.0.100]>
Apparently it's been changed in the past 24 hours, probably as a
result of this discussion.
I'm sure others here checked it out and found what I found, ads for a
software company, you're the first one to report otherwise (and yes
right now it does seem to suddenly say something about Tonga.)
I smell something fishy going on here.
On October 1, 1998 at 11:02 jh@harkin.net (John Harkin) wrote:
> At 10:23 AM -0700 10/1/98, Barry Shein wrote:
> >The server with the tongan consulate net address appears to be a web
> >server for some software company and has nothing to do with Tonga as
> >far as I can tell.
> >
> >Is it located at the Tongan consulate?
>
> I just looked at http://sfconsulate.gov.to/ and it is clearly about the
> Kingdom. I'm not sure what you saw.
>
> My info about that server is old, it appears instead of being at the end of
> a 56k line at the consulate, it is now at one of Best's colo facilities.
>
> The primary nameserver for TO, tonic.to, is still at the consulate.
>
> John
>
> --
> John Harkin
> Internet Network and Systems Consulting
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>
