Mail delivery/DNS oops

[unixronin]

Mail delivery to caerllewys.net has not been working for several days because smtp.caerllewys.net was not resolving.  This turns out to be because my nameserver was not loading the external zones, and this in turn is because I tried to add @ IN records for babcom.com, babcom.info and caerllewys.net, having temporarily forgotten that BIND9 will not allow an @ IN record to be a CNAME.

If you've been trying to snd mail to *@caerllewys.net and it's been bouncing, this is why.  It's fixed now, but the DNS information may take a little while to propagate again.  This time, I've annotated the zone files to remind myself of this the next time someone asks me why babylon5.babcom.com and smtp.caerllewys.net (for example) resolve, but babcom.com and caerllewys.net don't.

Bad unixronin.  No donut.  Fifty geek points will be taken away.

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Re: Geek Points

[hmstryx.livejournal.com]

I was actually a fan interested in the IP struggle for B5 (the series). My dinner reservation to discuss the possibility of licensing and continuation for the series or an alternative title that JMS would be interested in was cut short in 2001 by a little domestic disturbance. My spouse threw a knife at me for letting a girl sleep at my loft (seperate bedroom) rather than let her drive herself home extremely drunk from the club (2 blocks away). I only met her because I had already had my kids taken 'to punish me' the prior day and I walked the 1 block to the club looking for regular (guy) friends to console me.

Despite sleeping on the floor (concrete) at my girl's feet all night after she decided to cut her little kidnapping caper short, as well as her presence in the loft the whole night, she was still livid over the whole idea another woman had come into -her- home ($2K/m rent, mine). After a terse attempt at being civil all morning, she spun around and 'slipped' - tossing a blade about 15 feet to land at my feet by the door. Both my guest and I decided we weren't going to stay after that, and split to get lunch down the street while she cooled off. I hadn't taken two steps outside the door before my spouse locked it behind me (see abuse: lockouts, women as abusers).

I was a little upset after the unprovoked attack and left with my guest after being locked out of my house - seperated from my 2 year old child. Despite about 30 minutes of begging over the phone while driving around Deep Ellum in Dallas, I couldn't convince my spouse to just drop it and to attend the JMS dinner event (which I had pre-purchased seats for) that night. I eventually skipped out myself in disgust and exhaustion - which I've come to deeply regret. I figured I'd just send JMS some money and do the date later after the $2M Aug '01 IPO, but a subsequent (and lasting) parental kidnapping that day (Aug 18th 2001) curtailed that plan and led to a greek tragedy of corporate sabotage, extortion, and fraud over the next four years aimed at torpedoing the entire Project (http://www.beyondwar.com/). Despite Federal Law (28 U.S.C. Sec 1738A Paragraph E) - no criminal prosecution has been undertaken for the 4 years I haven't seen my son or the $10,000+ in ransom paid supporting this. It's complicated, but the written death threats, armed carjacking - hostage taking - and identity document robbery, 9mm barrel scar in my face, missing lug nuts on my car (recoverd Dec 02), and extortion letters to employees would normally evoke just a little attention from the Mrs. Fletcher types out there. U.S. Law Enforcement: Zero.

Current premise defending the U.S. law enforcement agencies: A Parent has no right to their children (biological or by relationship) unless a court so orders. Actions prior that order are non-criminal, as are any criminal actions that might involve custody issues with a biological parent not-conflicting with a prior (legal or illegal) order.

Since that time revenue has dropped about $500,000 since the defamation campaign, which even brought ICANN in to reclaim a domain used by the non-biological abductor to commit identity theft. The fundring round alone was worth about $2M, which I believe based on letters the abducting party wanted a piece of - free and clear - for access (not return) of the children (81 days and 2 years old, respectively). We've also seen a $1600 identity theft scam run from the same City the abductors moved to against my current spouse, most likely related to the armed robbery of our papers Nov '02 about 3 weeks after the public written solicitation for murder.

Needless to say, my career took a hit as well as every bank working with me - and reflexively every background check that civilian employers (illegally) require for the few remaining jobs in the U.S. When 9/11 came I didn't even raise an eyebrow, other than to ask my caller about a minute after plane 1 hit, "Where's plane two?" - and then to watch it enter frame on live TV. (Old alert, Defcon mailing list - src FBI Manilla: detailing 2 plane scenario). As of today, I doubt my little boy (taken at 81 days of age) even knows who his real father is.

"What a country!?!" - Yakov Smirnov