oh so when BARBIE wants to stop being a doll and interact with the real world as a real person, it’s fine and fun and great, but when I, charles “chucky” lee ray,
I mean they did arrest barbie. that’s a pretty significant thing that happened. like I understand where you’re coming from but they did very much arrest barbie
Right now it’s a victim of DNS (Domain Name Service) spoofing. This means that a malicious party is trying to steal traffic from FFn by purchasing a very similar domain.
So if you want to read fanfiction and not see leaves, you have have to type out “www.fanfiction.net”.
Please share so people stop panicking.
Its not this either. the web server that fanfiction.net is pointed at is just misconfigured.
if you look the DNS resolution chain points correctly to the nameservers in the whois info:
[Whois info showing that the nameservers for fanfction.net point to: NS11.CONSTELLIX.COM NS21.CONSTELLIX.COM NS31.CONSTELLIX.COM NS41.CONSTELLIX.NET NS51.CONSTELLIX.NET NS61.CONSTELLIX.NET]
this is my dog coded mutual this is my vampire coded mutual this is my machine coded mutual this is my laura palmer mutual this is my ressurected corpse mutual and that’s derek
So I looked up why and how this happened, and it turns out Weird Al hired a company called Birdhouse Skateboards to provide some “skate/punk” extras for the video. Birdhouse Skateboards is a company started by Tony Hawk, so not only did Weird Al end up putting Tony Hawk in his video without realizing it, he actually hired Tony Hawk’s company without realizing it! And then Tony Hawk just decided to go along as one of the extras himself.
BTW, he’d already won like 40 contests already, some of them international skateboarding contests. So it’s not like Weird Al cast some unknown skateboarder who ended up becoming World Famous Skateboarder, he was already well known and was running his own Skateboarding company.
Think of it this way. This wasn’t ‘Weird Al got Tony Hawk to be in his video’, this was ‘Tony Hawk found a way to be in a Weird Al Video.’
The chance that Tony Hawk has infiltrated your location or piece of media is low
Right now it’s a victim of DNS (Domain Name Service) spoofing. This means that a malicious party is trying to steal traffic from FFn by purchasing a very similar domain.
So if you want to read fanfiction and not see leaves, you have have to type out “www.fanfiction.net”.
Please share so people stop panicking.
Its not this either. the web server that fanfiction.net is pointed at is just misconfigured.
if you look the DNS resolution chain points correctly to the nameservers in the whois info:
[Whois info showing that the nameservers for fanfction.net point to: NS11.CONSTELLIX.COM NS21.CONSTELLIX.COM NS31.CONSTELLIX.COM NS41.CONSTELLIX.NET NS51.CONSTELLIX.NET NS61.CONSTELLIX.NET]
This is perfectly normal in cloudflare enterprise. The issue is the hosting company didn’t set up a redirect from fanfiction.net to www.fanfiction.net
This is NOT DNS spoofing. There is NO malicious party. It’s just a simple misconfiguration.
Hanlion’s razor at work.
[Image ID: a comment on this post from ‘justhere4coffee’ which reads: “That’s not spoofing, nor malicious; www.fanfiction.net and fanfiction.net are not separate URLs. It’s a misconfiguration in the DNS server which means that the un-prefixed URL is not being sent to the correct entry point on the hosting server. Don’t go saying this is someone else, as people may be tempted to take retaliatory action and they’ll be taking it at the people you’re trying to help!” /End of ID.]
So it’s not a DNS misconfiguration per-se: www.fanfiction.net is being hosted by way of cloudflare, and connections are being routed to cloudflare by that CNAME (Canonical Name) record I mention above.
This isn’t a valid method to directtraffic to fanfiction.net into cloudflare, as you can’t have a CNAME at the apex of a domain (the point where it is delegated to you) because you can’t have a CNAME and other data; and in order to host a DNS zone like fanfiction.net the SOA (Start of Authority) and NS (name server) records for that name are mandatory.
To fix this, you can do things that are SUPER sketchy from a DNS hosting PoV, (like host an imitation copy of the .COM TLD on your authoritative DNS server and then put your CNAMEs in there.)
Or you can just set up the web server to redirect.
If you’re ever in this situation, my professional opinion is to do the second one.
Right now it’s a victim of DNS (Domain Name Service) spoofing. This means that a malicious party is trying to steal traffic from FFn by purchasing a very similar domain.
So if you want to read fanfiction and not see leaves, you have have to type out “www.fanfiction.net”.
Please share so people stop panicking.
Its not this either. the web server that fanfiction.net is pointed at is just misconfigured.
if you look the DNS resolution chain points correctly to the nameservers in the whois info:
[Whois info showing that the nameservers for fanfction.net point to: NS11.CONSTELLIX.COM NS21.CONSTELLIX.COM NS31.CONSTELLIX.COM NS41.CONSTELLIX.NET NS51.CONSTELLIX.NET NS61.CONSTELLIX.NET]
