athoik

Most probably they failed to renew on time and DNS vanished.

According to https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup domain Updated: 2024-02-03 01:48:49 UTC

Querying the IP's of VLC nameservers works...

ns1.vlcplayer.org 213.36.253.2 ns2.vlcplayer.org 163.172.105.155

$ dig SOA videolan.org @213.36.253.2

;; ANSWER SECTION: videolan.org. 300 IN SOA ns0.videolan.org. admin.videolan.org. 2024010903 7200 3600 2419200 21600

$ dig NS videolan.org @163.172.105.155

;; ANSWER SECTION: videolan.org. 300 IN NS ns1.videolan.org. videolan.org. 300 IN NS ns2.videolan.org.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns1.videolan.org. 300 IN A 213.36.253.2 ns2.videolan.org. 300 IN A 163.172.105.155 ns1.videolan.org. 300 IN AAAA 2a01:e0d:1:3:58bf:fa02:c0de:60

It's like VLC domain expired and removed from DNS system.

$ dig A videolan.org @1.1.1.1

; <<>> DiG 9.11.5-P4-5.1+deb10u9-Debian <<>> A videolan.org @1.1.1.1 ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 33078 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;videolan.org. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION: org. 3391 IN SOA a0.org.afilias-nst.info. hostmaster.donuts.email. 1706948732 7200 900 1209600 3600

;; Query time: 5 msec ;; SERVER: 1.1.1.1#53(1.1.1.1) ;; WHEN: Sat Feb 03 10:38:01 EET 2024 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 123

Just great!

Hope to release wireguard on FreeBSD soon as well.

In order pfSense to include it: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/8786

Some time ago, the π day... I become aware of the following. Sadly I totally agree with the "trend" :(

"If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality."

-- Stephen Hawking

No valid cerificate on https://abc.wtf WTF!

What about security issues?

Those will be in public too? Or you should contact by email when you have a security issue.

Using Google is ok, but mastering Google is art!

Although sometimes you are the first that hit an issue.

Solving the issue and sharing the results is the next greatest thing one could do. Reporting the issue is great too.

Another useful library is vatnumber Python module to validate VAT numbers: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/vatnumber

python-requests is a must have!

Requests: HTTP for Humans http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/

Unfortunately site is down: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/greek-bailout-fund

Tick Tack time is getting over. :(

Surgery: https://xkcd.com/644/

s/core dumps/heartbleed/

Interesting, i guess it can be modified to search for private key using heartbleed infected server(s).

An error occurred during a connection to www.cloudflarechallenge.com. Peer's Certificate has been revoked. (Error code: sec_error_revoked_certificate)

Game over...

Maybe Akamai should create a challenge just like Cloudflare did...