[aprssig] who forgot to renew aprs-is.net?

[Earl Needham]

Just for info, I got the AME site a few times as well.

In fact, I got it again just now, but a reload got me to aprs-is.

Vy 7 3
Earl
KD5XB


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On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 7:12 PM Andrew Pavlin via aprssig <
aprssig at lists.tapr.org> wrote:

> Looks like I had a DNS spoofing attack. After clearing all my nameserver
> caches and restarting them, I can see the site now. I'm not sure why
> earlier it was automatically upgrading from http to https to take me to the
> AME website.
>
> Andrew, KA2DDO
>
> On Saturday, January 8, 2022, 02:38:04 PM EST, Pete Loveall AE5PL Lists <
> hamlists at ametx.com> wrote:
>
>
> Working just fine for me.  AME Corp. is the base web site for that IP
> address so if you were going to the IP address or you were trying to use
> https, you will see the base site, not aprs-is.net.  Been this way since
> its inception.
>
> 73,
>
> Pete Loveall AE5PL
> pete at ae5pl dot net
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aprssig <aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org> On Behalf Of Andrew Pavlin
> via aprssig
> Sent: Saturday, January 8, 2022 12:33 PM
> To: TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig at lists.tapr.org>
> Subject: [aprssig] who forgot to renew aprs-is.net?
>
> Greetings.
>
> I was going to visit the aprs-is.net website to check a protocol
> specification, and now it's displaying a webpage for AME Corporation. Did
> someone forget to renew the domain name lease? Or am I dealing with DNS
> spoofing?
>
> Someone might want to check why this corporation is showing up for a ham
> radio domain name.
>
> Andrew, KA2DDO
> author of YAAC
>
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