As you may know the panix.com domain was hijacked for the past day or so;
it seems to be up now. But to make sure you reach me, please send also to
sondheim@gmail.com - Thanks, Alan
nettext http://biblioteknett.no/alias/HJEMMESIDE/bjornmag/nettext/
http://www.asondheim.org/
WVU 2004 projects: http://www.as.wvu.edu/clcold/sondheim/
http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/Members/sondheim
Trace projects http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm
Panix Shell Services
Panix - Public Access Networks Corporation
Panix victim of domain name hijacking
Status as of Sun Jan 16 17:50:40 EST 2005
Recovery from the panix.com domain name hijack is underway. The registrar
in Melbourne has reverted the domain back to us, and the global Internet
registry and domain name servers are now showing the correct information.
However, due to the distributed nature of the Internet domain name system,
it will take 4-24 more hours before the false data from the hijacking
expires and is discarded by the various name servers. Our customers and
servers can be reached by using the panix.net domain, as described below.
(old information left below for reference).
Panix's main domain name, panix.com, has been hijacked by parties unknown.
The ownership of panix.com was moved to a company in Australia, the actual
DNS records were moved to a company in the United Kingdom, and panix.com's
mail has been redirected to yet another company in Canada. Panix staff are
currently working around the clock to recover our domain, but this may
take until Monday, due to the time differences and difficulties in
reaching responsible parties over the weekend.
For most customers, accesses to Panix using the panix.com domain will not
work or will end up at a false site. Since the Internet domain name system
is distributed, some network providers still have the correct information
in their name servers, but this could change at any moment.
As a temporary workaround, you can use the panix.net domain in place of
panix.com. In other words, if you're trying to log onto "shell.panix.com"
or see your mail at "mail.panix.com," use "shell.panix.net" or
"mail.panix.net" instead. However, you should only change the names of
hosts that you connect to or your return address: the name you use to
login to our mail servers, username@panix.com, should stay the same.
Mail to username@panix.com is currently being redirected to the false site
, and should be considered lost or compromised if it does not arrive in
your Panix mailbox. If you have online accounts that authenticate via
email address, you might wish to protect them against fraud by changing
that address to your username "@panix.net".
When contacting hosts that use SSL security (URLs that begin with "https"
rather than "http", or SSL-wrapped services such as secure SMTP, secure
IMAP, or secure POP), you will see a hostname error. The server will
present a certificate that says it is "something.panix.com", and your
browser or mail program, which expects to see "something.panix.net", will
complain about the mismatch. This is an expected consequence of using the
"panix.net" workaround. If you have urgent concerns that are not addressed
by this message, you can contact us by calling +1 (212) 741-4400, and
pressing 0. (You may need to leave a message for us, but we're checking
frequently.) For less-than urgent concerns, please write to us at
staff@panix.net.
Panix, the oldest commercial Internet provider in New York, is dedicated
to providing stable and reliable Internet access, email, netnews and UNIX
computing services to the public. We started in 1989, before the advent of
the Internet, and we're still going strong.
Panix is a full-service ISP, offering World Wide Web hosting, Internet
connectivity of all kinds in the New York metro area (New York City, Long
Island, Westchester, Rockland County, and New Jersey), and National
Dialup-- with dialup access in over 1100 locations in 49 states.
We also specialize in UNIX shell access, from anywhere on the Internet,
anywhere in the world.
Many of our users are still receiving variations of the Beagle virus we
warned about early in March. This is email that forges "From:" addresses
so that they appear to be from Panix, and include signatures like "The
Panix.com Team" and mentioning this web site.
These are forged and they're affecting ISPs around the globe, not just
Panix.
We have made some additional information about these viruses available.
the watcher of skies is always there
soaring so high in the ice-cold air
we go into her cage and live in her lair
her beak is so strong, her feathers so fair
to see such a sight is indeed now quite rare
my fingers ungloved, my skin was quite bare
she knew i was safe and handled with care
my life and my love, we made quite a pair
http://www.asondheim.org/hawk1.mov
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