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Cycling.TV: hijacked domain/DNS

Cycling.TV's domain registration ran out August 29.  Somebody else now has it, updated it today (August 30) and it now directs to a junk ad site.

DNS changes may take a little while to propagate, and you may still have a more local cache of the good one, but soon enough you too won't be able to get to Cycling.TV.  Here, try it.

Somebody royally, big-time screwed up.  If we're lucky, it'll be back up within a couple of days into the next work-week, OR they'll have to move to an alternate name.

For those of you who know what I'm talking about, the good info (I found it cached at work) is:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
cycling.tv.             1318    IN      A       216.58.225.150

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
cycling.tv.             55300   IN      NS      dns2.xosn.com.
cycling.tv.             55300   IN      NS      dns1.xosn.com.

The new jacked-up record is like this:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
cycling.tv.             3600    IN      A       69.64.155.128

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
cycling.tv.             3600    IN      NS      dns1.name-services.com.
cycling.tv.             3600    IN      NS      dns2.name-services.com.
cycling.tv.             3600    IN      NS      dns3.name-services.com.
cycling.tv.             3600    IN      NS      dns4.name-services.com.
cycling.tv.             3600    IN      NS      dns5.name-services.com.

So, anybody got a bittorrent of the Vuelta prologue?  So much for watching it on demand.  Actually, I'm gonna play with changing a computer's DNS servers to the IPs of dns1&dns2.xosn.com, and see if I can get to it that way.

Un-frickin'-believable.

-Greg

Update: If you are comfortable doing this, change your computer's DNS servers to 216.58.225.241 and 216.58.225.242 and restart the computer.  These are the real Cycling.TV DNS servers, but making this change makes your computer do all DNS lookups through them.  You may find initial lookups slow, so reload pages until it starts working.  We're now watching Stage 1 as live.  Muck with this at your own risk.  You have been warned. :)

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