[pskmail] Re: [LinuxRMS] Re: Why is RMS Gateway K7EK-4 not authorized in Winlink system?
- From: Pär Crusefalk <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:52:45 +0100
Whoa, just read a bit about the effects of this mess. Like here: "I
noticed that my WINMOR/RMS server was refusing connections. Apparently
this is due to not being able to contact any CMS sites.".
So, name resolution stopped and so did the servers? That is a major
single point of failure if I ever heard of one. I hope they take care of
this and make sure it wont happen again. Lets also keep this in mind so
that we wont ever be tempted to rely on anything similar (not that we
would but..).
I also hope we can just learn from this and not start a flame war as no
one will benefit from that.
73 de Per, sm0rwo
tis 2011-01-04 klockan 06:07 -0500 skrev Larry Levesque:
> And I am not a bit surprised that there is not a mention of it on their web
> site.
>
> How embarrassing, that someone forgot to renew the domain for something so
> important. And worse still, that such an act could bring down the WL2K
> network. All the time and money to make those servers hardened only to fail
> due to this.
>
> I hope no one has put all of their eggs into one basket here. I hope everyone
> has a back up plan and has been practicing it.
>
> FYI - NBEMS / fldigi / pskmail is a really good alternative. It is much more
> flexible and less expensive to implement. It can also be set up on a whim,
> without the need for someone to "authorize" you to connect to their "hardened
> network infrastructure".
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 04:40:44AM -0000, edlhorses wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I had that problem and emailed in to Winlink help and found out that the
> > password had changed to my Winlink password I used to access the website.
> > It looks like winlink.org lost their domain and Network Solutions has
> > parked it.
> >
> > 73
> > KE5ISM
>
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