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shoewizard · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:21 pm Post subject: Who hijacked BTF ??

the links to BTF don't work....they are all directing to another site. Somebody hijacked their URL.

Damn.

matt · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:49 pm Post subject:

There is a link at the bottom of the page:

TAP · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:51 pm Post subject: Re: Who hijacked BTF ??

qudjy1 · Veteran Presence Joined: 10 Aug 2006 Posts: 1074

Serial killers were posting on thier site...

nyuk, nyuk, nyuk...

shoewizard · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:05 pm Post subject:

thanks....

me no smart.....

TAP · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:40 pm Post subject:

moviegeekjn · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:48 pm Post subject:

TAP · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:03 pm Post subject:

moviegeekjn · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 5:42 pm Post subject:

TAP · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 8:53 pm Post subject:

stu · Everyday Player Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 545

Wiki Gonzalez has this to say about the BTF situation:

Baseball Think Factory has disappeared! What's the deal?

A. Quoting Jim Furtado from the home page:

*ahem* *straightens notes* FUCK YOU. Fuck the lounge. Fuck baseball. Fuck the little spittle that comes out when Peter Gammons talks. But most of all, fuck James Pidutti. I've had it with this fucking bullshit. I'm out.

The site is currently in domain registrar limbo between my current registrar (godaddy.com) and my former registrar (registerfly.com). I've been told an error occurred during the transfer process. As a result, although the site shows current and up-to-date at godaddy.com, somehow the record was/is still controlled by registerfly.com. I've been assured by both registrars that the problem soon will be rectified.

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Q2. How do I fix/work around this problem?

A2. The site still appears to be up at IP Address 66.197.210.165. The Whois entry indicates an update was made today and that the IP is good through Nov. 26 of next year. If payment was made today it will take awhile for the DNS to resolve the entry back to the correct address. The workaround would be to create an entry in your local hosts file with this address.

In Windows XP place the line "66.197.210.165 www.baseballthinkfactory.org" in \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
In Linux or Mac OS X put it in /etc/hosts.

Q2a. Okay, I don't know what any of that means, but I did what you said for Windows XP, shut down, and it still doesn't seem to be working. Is there anything else I need to do, or is this because I'm at work, or what? (Update: Thanks, but the line is still there so that isn't it. Is it because I'm trying to go to BTF and not the IP address? How should I get to the IP address?)

A2a. Open back up the hosts file and see if the new line is in the file. If it is not, then you probably have some type of anti-spyware software that prevents changes to the local hosts file. If that is the case, you will have to shut down that software if you are allowed to make the change.

Q2b. Wait, \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts looks like the back half of a url. Is there supposed to be a front part to this? I tried it on its own and it didn't work. I tried it at the faux btf site and it didn't work. I don't get it.

A2b. No, it's not part of a URL. It's a file on your C Drive.

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Q3. Who's responsible?

A3. I don't know. Jon Daly?

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Q4. Since I still can't get on, can you tell me what's happening on the site right now?

A4. Sand.

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Q5. How could a loving God allow something like this to happen?

A5. He's punishing us for harbouring so many Jewish agnostic lawyers.

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Meatwad is in mIRC for those intrested in hearing about what ever the hell he has to say.
(Meatwad is typing "Kill the pig, Cut her throat, Spill her blood." over and over again.) (You can't say that. You don't have the conch.)

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Q6. What the hell is Repoz going to do today?

A6...Well, outside of searching for exiting Christian articles...I've been cleaning my Larry and the Loafers 45's!

I have no idea what any of this means. The prior posts were more understandable to me.

AZ SnakePit · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:09 am Post subject: Re: Who hijacked BTF ??

EvilJuan · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:07 am Post subject:

McCray · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:24 pm Post subject:

i have no idea how to edit host files or any crap like that, but i tried fiddling with the url and it seems to have worked.

just replace the "www.baseballthinkfactory.org" with the "66.197.210.165" and it seems to work, even for the links. you won't be able to click and open them, but if you replace it after you click the link, it seems to work.

example:

instead of this:

http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/newsstand/discussion/any_deal_for_figgins_full_of_complexity_on_chicagosportscom/

just try this:

http://66.197.210.165/files/newsstand/discussion/any_deal_for_figgins_full_of_complexity_on_chicagosportscom/
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stu · Everyday Player Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 545

moviegeekjn · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 1:14 pm Post subject:

levski · Veteran Presence Joined: 10 Aug 2006 Posts: 1633

mccray, you're a genius

McCray · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:23 pm Post subject:

EvilJuan · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:24 pm Post subject:

That numeric address (http://xxx.yyy.zzz) is how the internet really works.

Most of us, however, seem to function better when we have a name for a site, rather than its "street number." As such, the numeric address is translated to something more benign (http://www.mccrayisagenius.com) when it appears on our browsers; and when we type the URL into the browser window, it automatically gets translated to its numeric equivalent and sent on its merry way to the proper location.

There's a command you can use to do this translation on your own computer; but I've forgotten what it is. That command is useful in situations such as the one occurring here; and also to find out where the spam/viruses/etc are coming from -- but most of us never need to go there...

A little bit of unimportant internet trivia...
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shoewizard · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:58 pm Post subject:

BTF is back up

levski · Veteran Presence Joined: 10 Aug 2006 Posts: 1633

moviegeekjn · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 4:12 pm Post subject:

AZ SnakePit · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 12:43 pm Post subject:

Yep, a big chunk of the Internet is devoted to converting domains to those numbers, the IP addresses. For instance, you can reach the home page for the domain here through the address below:
http://71.18.153.97/
If you need to find the IP address for a site, you can just bring up a DOS prompt and type "ping <domainname.com>", which will show you the address the name converts to. Generally, this is controlled by computers on the Internet called "domain name servers", but you can override them through altering the HOSTS file on your computer, which I think was mentioned in the instructions. Here, for example, I've added dummy entries to my HOSTS file for the common advert servers, so that when a page tries to load from them, it doesn't display anything. Saves time and bandwidth, useful for those of us still crawling on dial-up. Wink

However, it does have limitations, in that many domains are located on shared hosting servers, where all sites have the same IP address, and so the address can refer to many different domains. It's lucky BTF appears to have its own one, otherwise the McCray trick wouldn't work. On shared servers, the address a domain maps to would be something like http://23.45.67.89/~username - the username may be the first eight characters of the domain name, for example, to provide a unique identifier on the server. There's a file on the server, vhosts.conf, which then maps domains to a specific place on the server.

Thank you for contacting technical support. Please let us know if we can help you in any other way. Very Happy

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shoewizard · Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:25 am Post subject:

BTF servers down again

McCray · Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:46 am Post subject:

the thing that worked earlier -- putting the numbers in instead of bbtf.org, does not seem to be working anymore.
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