BAWIA.ORG (Spelled correctly this time)

[David Backeberg]

I never made it to a bawia meeting, but I do recall that bawia.org (no 
www) was somebody's personal website, and you only got to bawia if you 
prepended www. I know they had a meeting in August, and I thought 
they were going to have the author of Kismet speak, but I 
couldn't make it. Obviously, DNS is down, but my point is that perhaps the 
person who owned the registration let go of the name, rather than that the 
group has totally dissolved.

-- 
David Backeberg (dave at math.mit.edu)
Network Staff Assistant
MIT Math Dept.
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, David Kramer wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Jeff Kinz wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 01:30:43PM -0400, Keller, Tim wrote:
>>> Well, that would make sense.  It has been a thousand years since they last
>>> updated their website... ;-)
>>
>> wha?... oh -
>>  Google last cached a page from their website on Oct 2, 2004
>>                                                         ^
>> Which of these recent events is not unusual :
>>
>>  - Red Sox Win World series
>>  - total lunar eclipse
>>  - Conservative magazines don't endorse republican for president
>>  - Jeff has a typo in his email
>
> LOL!
>
> Their WHOIS info changed on 10/08/04; I'm guessing it was done poorly, or
> the group was disbanded.  It lists Bob Keyes at bob at sinister.com
> 617-539-9956
>
> DIG says the authoritative nameservers are sinister.com and
> ns2.dnsalchemy.com.  sinister.com says "Host bawia.org not found:
> 2(SERVFAIL)", and ns2.dnsalchemy.com causes a connection timeout.  Maybe
> someone turned the lead in their server's motherboard into gold and it
> fried.
>
> More DNS fun: Their registrar is @Com Technology, LLC.  Would you use a
> registrar whose website was riddled with 404 links and "Coming soon!"
> pages?
>
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