Exciting news on the IBM/Lotus DNS screwup: the plot thickens

October 10th, 2009 | Categories: DNS, DomiNotes, Entertainement | Tags: , ,

Chris also appears to be avidly following the IBM/Lotus DNS saga, and writes that there is news! (BTW, my joke plugin didn't detect this change, because I didn't expect it to happen any more. :-) )

The news? They've managed to get enough knowhow together to replace the whole resource record:

dig @cmtu.mt.ns.els-gms.att.net. developer.lotus.com

;; ANSWER SECTION:
developer.lotus.com.    300     IN      A       192.147.107.27

Ah, great. So now it works?

Well, not quite:

If you go to http://developer.lotus.com/, you get a 403 error (Forbidden.) The HTML is a beaut, and full of lovely licensed material:

<!doctype html public "html2.0">

<HTML>
<!--                                                                        -->
<!-- (C) COPYRIGHT International Business Machines Corp. 1995, 1999         -->
<!-- All Rights Reserved                                                    -->
<!-- Licensed Materials - Property of IBM                                   -->
<!--                                                                        -->
<!-- US Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or            -->
<!-- disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp.      -->
<!--                                                                        -->
<HEAD>
   <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
   <TITLE>Error</TITLE>
</HEAD>

<body background="http://gh305.lotus.com:80/cpicons/statusBG.jpg">
...

The headers of the HTTP request: 

HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden by rule.
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Expires: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:59:33 GMT
Last-Modified: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:59:33 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Connection: close
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:59:33 GMT
Server: IBM-PROXY-WTE/6.1
Content-Length: 1391

Thanks, Chris!

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