Author Topic: DNS Is Fun!! (Read 1593 times)

YNOT · « **on:** April 01, 2011, 04:14:47 PM »

This morning around 9 10ish est coastgab.com kept redirecting me to a George Noory fanclub facebook page...

Did any one else experience it?

morphiaflow · « **Reply #1 on:** April 01, 2011, 04:31:24 PM »

Quote from: YNOT on April 01, 2011, 04:14:47 PM

This morning around 9 10ish est coastgab.com kept redirecting me to a George Noory fanclub facebook page... Did any one else experience it?

I suspect it has something to do with the date on today's calendar....

YNOT · « **Reply #2 on:** April 01, 2011, 08:59:02 PM »

Damn. I didn't even realize it was April 1st today....

I admit it... You got me good Michael V....LOL

Michael Vandeven · « **Reply #3 on:** April 01, 2011, 09:19:22 PM »

To those of you (everyone) who came to CoastGab today only to be greeted with this:

My apologies.

Hope you had an enjoyable April Fools' Day.

Tee hee!!

EvB · « **Reply #4 on:** April 01, 2011, 09:21:49 PM »

you suck

Michael Vandeven · « **Reply #5 on:** April 01, 2011, 09:23:07 PM »

Quote from: EvB on April 01, 2011, 09:21:49 PM

you suck

i'd like to point out that i received a panicked phone call from evb at about 11AM today. i was happy to inform her of the date.

pwnage.

b_dubb · « **Reply #6 on:** April 01, 2011, 09:25:47 PM »

Yeah great gag MV

EvB · « **Reply #7 on:** April 01, 2011, 09:39:23 PM »

Well, I'd say CONCERNED more than panicked - but yes, you owned my ass.

Michael Vandeven · « **Reply #8 on:** April 01, 2011, 09:41:56 PM »

Quote from: EvB on April 01, 2011, 09:39:23 PM

Well, I'd say CONCERNED more than panicked - but yes, you owned my ass.

hmm... i heard a certain quivery panic in your voice... but that's ok.

haloedorchid · « **Reply #9 on:** April 01, 2011, 09:42:32 PM »

You got me at first, too. Good one! I thought the Noory trolls combined their brainpower to hack the site.

Michael Vandeven · « **Reply #10 on:** April 01, 2011, 09:48:52 PM »

Quote from: haloedorchid on April 01, 2011, 09:42:32 PM

You got me at first, too. Good one! I thought the Noory trolls combined their brainpower to hack the site.

nevah!!!!!

(only kidding. i know nothing is totally secure. please don't hack me. thank you.)

Eddie Coyle · « **Reply #11 on:** April 01, 2011, 09:56:18 PM »

That was fuckin' great

...

I as well,initially thought that Noory-ites were behind this re-directing, but that's way too complicated for them and then figured out(hoped,really) it was probably a April Fool caper...

Michael Vandeven · « **Reply #12 on:** April 01, 2011, 09:57:44 PM »

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on April 01, 2011, 09:56:18 PM

That was fuckin' great ...

Initially I thought that Noory-ites were behind this re-directing, but that's way too complicated for them.

haha, thank u, thank u.

Evil Twin Of Zen · « **Reply #13 on:** April 01, 2011, 09:57:51 PM »

Thou be a roynish fool-born fustilarian. A virtual King of Taily Day.

Had you played it up a few days before with hints of selling the site it would have been very slick indeed.

awguy · « **Reply #14 on:** April 01, 2011, 10:09:10 PM »

Good one MV. I fell for it for about 5 and a half seconds, Then I remembered the date LOL!

Michael Vandeven · « **Reply #15 on:** April 01, 2011, 10:09:26 PM »

Quote from: Evil Twin Of Zen on April 01, 2011, 09:57:51 PM

Thou be a roynish fool-born fustilarian. A virtual King of Taily Day.

Had you played it up a few days before with hints of selling the site it would have been very slick indeed.

haha, there's always next year. that would have been killer. wish i'd thought of that additional tidbit.

Michael Vandeven · « **Reply #16 on:** April 01, 2011, 10:13:26 PM »

i just got a private message inquiring about the whole noory fan club redirect. it made me laugh so hard i nearly soiled myself. i have tears rolling down my face as i type this. i REALLY hope this individual is going to let me post that message here for you to read.

Michael Vandeven · « **Reply #17 on:** April 01, 2011, 10:30:25 PM »

and here's that private message, with permission granted to post it:

Hi, Mike,

A few hours into April Fool's Day, I was knocked off Coast Gab, and found that when I tried to get back on, I was redirected to -- tada -- George Noory Fan Club on Facebook. This cannot be a coincidence, because, as you know, George says there is no such thing.

On my netbook, I did a "system restore," which seems to have worked. On the desktop I'm at right now, I went to Malwarebytes.org, and it found about 200 infections, which it supposedly cleaned, but I still couldn't use just the usual www.coastgab.com url. The way I got here was to look at my search history which gave me the following url www.coastgab.com/index.php?action=pm;sa=send - which worked.

I would really hate to have to do another "system restore", especially on this desktop, as just today I renewed and downloaded my McAfee Total Protection program on both computers, thinking I was being extra safe. Mwahahaha ...

It's likely you know something about all this by now, and if you have any comments or suggestions for me, please email me at ***@***.***

I know you're doing your taxes right now, and are undoubtedly not looking for new problems, so sorry to be the bearer (if I'm the 1st.)

Thanks, ************************

The General · « **Reply #18 on:** April 01, 2011, 10:34:40 PM »

Nice one MV.

I even checked your podcast page to try to get some kind of info, till I remembered the date. Then I was sure that Coastgab would return April 2nd, except it would be reformatted as TalkGab, or whatever you're going to call this new talk radio forum that you've been hinting at morphing this into. Alas, I over-thunk the prankster.

999 · « **Reply #19 on:** April 01, 2011, 10:39:13 PM »

That was brilliant!!!

I too, fell for it for about 5 minutes ("Hmm Clear Channel must have shut down coastgab, and MV redirected the site to George's sparsely-populated Facebook fan page as an 'up yours.'") then I remembered the date today.

Evil Twin Of Zen · « **Reply #20 on:** April 01, 2011, 10:45:21 PM »

Quote from: Michael V. on April 01, 2011, 10:30:25 PM

and here's that private message, with permission granted to post it:


Laurel & Hardy - Another Fine Mess

onan · « **Reply #21 on:** April 01, 2011, 10:47:25 PM »

Oh you got me. I thought the site had been haxxored. I spent the last 2 hours changing all my passwords to all my other accounts that use this email.

Kudos... and oh yeah, your shoes untied.

anagrammy · « **Reply #22 on:** April 01, 2011, 11:04:55 PM »

I hope you dolts realize this is a techie-only funfest and has been most unpleasant for those of us who were pulled back from jumping off balconies!

Toast to Toast anyone?

Anagrammy

Evil Twin Of Zen · « **Reply #23 on:** April 01, 2011, 11:16:51 PM »

Quote from: anagrammy on April 01, 2011, 11:04:55 PM

I hope you dolts realize this is a techie-only funfest and has been most unpleasant for those of us who were pulled back from jumping off balconies!

Toast to Toast anyone?

Anagrammy

For the Anagrammy's every ............ where.


Wont Get Fooled Again

guildnavigator · « **Reply #24 on:** April 01, 2011, 11:26:40 PM »

if this guy found "trojan horses" on his mainframe, I can guess...

nevermind...

b_dubb · « **Reply #25 on:** April 01, 2011, 11:45:36 PM »

i find trojan horses on my mainframe all the time

can you imagine trying to get an ethernet card to work on a Cray super computer?

Michael Vandeven · « **Reply #26 on:** April 01, 2011, 11:48:39 PM »

Quote from: b_dubb on April 01, 2011, 11:45:36 PM

i find trojan horses on my mainframe all the time

that's nothing you can't fix with a little rubbing alcohol, aloe, and time.

From Somewhere Out There · « **Reply #27 on:** April 02, 2011, 01:08:53 AM »

Got me hook, line and sinker. I was especially fooled because of the dire threats made against this site by one of Snoory's minions.

b_dubb · « **Reply #28 on:** April 02, 2011, 01:15:32 AM »

all your sites are belong to snoorz

Mops · « **Reply #29 on:** April 02, 2011, 04:25:45 AM »

I thought the joke was that George has a fan club.

You know Quayle has a Facebook page too but he refuses to identify himself.