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Nic.d Gets Punct #

by why in cult

Announcing Nic.d—for registering invalid domains in the underground.

While most registrars disallow use of equals signs, plusses, bangs, cashies, snails, guillemets, pig pens, pilcrows and the bunch in hostnames—nic.d refuses this grave hypocrisy! I am thief.

If you are thief, set your DNS to nic.d.hobix.com and cross over to the bad side forever.

said on 20 Oct 2006 at 17:21

Any idea how to modify the DNS on a mac running OS X ?

said on 20 Oct 2006 at 17:24

and textile sadly doesn’t work in your names (-: lol

said on 20 Oct 2006 at 17:39
said on 20 Oct 2006 at 17:42

On Mac OS X :

1. Go to System Preferences -> Network ->

2. Add 72.36.180.123 to DNS Servers in the TCP /IP Tab.

said on 20 Oct 2006 at 17:55

this is possibly the coolest thing ever done. if you start charging tho i’m going to be upset.

said on 20 Oct 2006 at 18:12

Even though I was a part of this, I still can’t access it. DAMN NTL .

said on 20 Oct 2006 at 18:12

(unfortunately TextDrive’s webmin doesn’t seem to like the _.you domains)

said on 20 Oct 2006 at 18:14

What about wildcard domains? Can I register something like *.foo.d?

said on 20 Oct 2006 at 18:55

Hey _why, do any of your funky domain name things use Sun RPC calls (over port 111)? I only ask because I’ve gotten a couple of emails from my network admins about traffic on that port and when I asked if I could see logs, they seemed to point back towards the hoodwink.d webserver.

said on 20 Oct 2006 at 19:05

You’re brilliant, and I love you.

said on 20 Oct 2006 at 19:45

simply wonderous.

said on 20 Oct 2006 at 20:09

Apple doesn’t want you to:

.d

said on 20 Oct 2006 at 20:50

domains with _ don’t seem to won’t to work in linux :(

said on 20 Oct 2006 at 22:21

how?: They work for me.

said on 20 Oct 2006 at 22:51

two questions:

  1. extending rick’s question, can we delegate other dns servers to host nic.d domains?
  2. Also, (a bit off topic) why would the user field in one’s hoodwink.d comment entry form be greyed out and inaccessible while the others remain available? I can’t post any comments at all; it is a fresh install on Firefox 1.5 with current Greasemonkey…
said on 20 Oct 2006 at 22:56

eek, Firefox haet _.anything. But it’s linux, so I understand.

said on 21 Oct 2006 at 01:07

Ha ha! Too cool!

said on 21 Oct 2006 at 01:44

that, dear people, was beautiful and brilliant. yay toys!

said on 21 Oct 2006 at 02:54

is it possible to have 2 simulatenous DNS ’s ? (im on windoz) i.e can I surf the underworld at the same time as RL ?

said on 21 Oct 2006 at 04:29

i would like to see CNAME entries in addition to the A ones :-)

said on 21 Oct 2006 at 07:24

jakdak, or any other poor souls on a windows box.

Start

Settings

Control Panel

Network Connections

{rightClick} your internet connection

properties

Internet Protocol(TCP/IP)

Properties

And there you have it.

nic.id.hobix.com goes by secret wizard code: 72.36.180.123

said on 21 Oct 2006 at 11:34

http://pwn.d / http://fucke.d

Getting apache to treat the domain correctly was a bit of a challenge for me, so here’s what I added to my apache2’s site-available file (linked to by sites-enabled):

<VirtualHost 209.135.157.143:80>
        ServerName pwn.d
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

        DocumentRoot /var/www/pwnd
        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www/pwnd/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>
        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/pwnd-error.log
        LogLevel warn
        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/pwnd-access.log combined
        ServerSignature On

</VirtualHost>
said on 21 Oct 2006 at 11:37

also haven’t had luck getting si!!ysnot.d to resolve, firefox says “Server not found”.

said on 21 Oct 2006 at 13:18

I know some chars make browsers and things flip out, but I assure you these names are yours. Here’s how you can test your domains in irb (on a machine setup with nic.d):

 >> require 'resolv-replace'
 => true
 >> IPSocket.getaddress("^_^.d")
 => "ip.ip.ip.ip" 
 >> IPSocket.getaddress("@.margot")
 => "ip.ip.ip.ip" 
 >> IPSocket.getaddress(%{si!!ysnot.d})
 => "ip.ip.ip.ip" 

Safari appears to be the most forgiving with punctuated hosts. Then IE, then Firefox, then Opera.

rick: No wildcards, since the asterisk gets to be hisself this time.

said on 21 Oct 2006 at 14:37

Aside from the usual problems, I also get DNS problems. It only seems to try the first DNS server in my list. It works if I do it explicitly (nslookup nic.d nic.d.hobix.com).

I think Socks5 lets you do DNS queries over the tunnel, though, so shouldn’t be much of a problem for me ;)

said on 21 Oct 2006 at 15:00

ba.d (.)(.)

thanks for the headz up on windoz

re: pointing these domains at an IP. Will I be able to get this working on a (quite flexible) shared host ?

said on 21 Oct 2006 at 16:27

It seems DreamHost doesn’t seem to like hosting invalid domains. Maybe better hosts will ;)

On the other hand, maybe I could submit a support ticket. Hah, that would confuse them!

said on 21 Oct 2006 at 17:16

Are we down? I can’t seem to get to the nic.d site anymore

said on 21 Oct 2006 at 17:35

Is there any way to delete a domain when you’re done messin’ with it? *.d points to 127.0.0.1 for the time being.

said on 21 Oct 2006 at 17:51

Got any hints as to how to set it up with BIND ?

said on 21 Oct 2006 at 18:37
To answer my own question,

options {
    // ...
    forwarders { 72.36.180.123; };
    // ...
}

seems to do the trick.

Pretty sweet.

said on 21 Oct 2006 at 18:53

... it doesn’t work, after all. Phooey.

said on 21 Oct 2006 at 21:35

_why, you’ve made my life-long dreams come true. I am now, finally, proud owner of the domain (>^_(7*.*)7

said on 21 Oct 2006 at 22:29

_why: is the DNS responder written in Ruby? will you be releasing it?

said on 22 Oct 2006 at 04:57

whoo got it working…

b.ad:”http://b.ad”

said on 22 Oct 2006 at 04:57

whoo got it working…

ba.d:”http://ba.d”

said on 22 Oct 2006 at 08:50

to those that’re having trouble getting it to work on OS X . It works just fine if you follow the instructions above about adding it to your network prefs. Note that you need to add the ip address of nic.d.hobix.com (currently 72.36.180.123) not nic.d.hobix.com. If you still have issues try making it the first dns in the list.

said on 22 Oct 2006 at 09:44

I’m getting a fcgi error…

said on 22 Oct 2006 at 14:15

working now…

said on 22 Oct 2006 at 14:24

how do I run camping on a port other than 3301 again?

said on 22 Oct 2006 at 21:53

camping blog.rb -p 80

said on 23 Oct 2006 at 00:59

Oh joy, oh joy!

PING ☠.d (85.158.201.133): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 85.158.201.133: icmp_seq=0 ttl=59 time=19.286 ms

said on 23 Oct 2006 at 21:23

Aww I’m sad. I registered .com, but nothing will recognize it including safari, ping, or IRB . )-:

said on 24 Oct 2006 at 13:18

any suggestions for somone (unfortuanately) on XP that has correctly put in DNS , but still can’t access anything? I’ve tested it out in irb and i still can’t get anything.

I’ve even gotten out the chicken head and do the normal dance that i use to help troubleshoot IIS , but it’s not working yet… maybe the computer gods will smile on me shortly…

said on 24 Oct 2006 at 16:51

aberant, i had to manually config the DNS as above, including my old DNS servers (from router) as second & third choices (go to advanced & make sure 72.36.180.123 is @ the top), reboot/reset my router – do an ipconfig /renew – all working groovy now

said on 25 Oct 2006 at 03:17

deletion broken? got carried away :P

said on 26 Oct 2006 at 09:01
said on 26 Oct 2006 at 13:52

This is greatness :)

said on 29 Oct 2006 at 06:53

i’ve edited my resolv.conf and added the ns entry to the bottom but still it can not resolve nic.d? do i need to do anything else?

  1. cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver x.x.x.x nameserver 72.36.180.123
  1. nslookup nic.d
  • server can’t find nic.d: NXDOMAIN

but if i do:

  1. nslookup nic.d 72.36.180.123

Name: nic.d Address: 72.36.180.126

i get results :)

said on 29 Oct 2006 at 06:54

err, formatting got screwed. sorry :)

said on 31 Oct 2006 at 15:53
dtlin: add the following to your named.conf:

zone "d" IN {
        type forward;
        forwarders { 72.36.180.123; };
};
and run sudo /etc/rc.d/named restart

That should work.

-Andy

11 Jul 2010 at 21:04

* do fancy stuff in your comment.

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