[ale] [OT] Website DNS issue

[Derek Atkins]

So reuel.net leads to a page that starts with:

Stories. Code. Encouragement.

Does GitHub know that it is supposed to answer to "leamhall.com"?  You'll
need to tell it that, so it reacts to the proper vhost responses.  Just
adding a CNAME is not sufficient, because the SNI / Host header needs to
match.

I didn't look closely as the purported Host with the "cute girl" :)  But I
suspect someone figured out how to capture all "default" github pages
traffic.

Right now, "leamhall.com" gives me an error page.  Going to
www.leamhall.com gets me to a hover page.

-derek

On Wed, October 16, 2024 9:30 am, Leam Hall wrote:
> A cute girl, who is not my cute wife, and who makes me upset with whomever
> is getting cutesy with my website.
>
> I may have a solution, based on your notes:
>
> [leam at shaphan ~]$ host reuel.net
> reuel.net has address 192.30.252.154
> reuel.net has address 192.30.252.153
> reuel.net mail is handled by 10 mx.hover.com.cust.hostedemail.com.
>
> [leam at shaphan ~]$ host leamhall.com
> leamhall.com has address 192.30.252.153
> leamhall.com has address 192.30.252.154
> leamhall.com mail is handled by 10 mx.hover.com.cust.hostedemail.com.
>
> [leam at shaphan ~]$ host leamhall.dev
> leamhall.dev has address 216.40.34.41
> leamhall.dev mail is handled by 10 mx.hover.com.cust.hostedemail.com.
>
> So, leamhall.dev is just an empty page, and reuel.net is my "real" page. I
> had set up leamhall.com as a CNAME to reuel.net, but then realized that
> GitHub Pages (where reuel.net goes to) didn't have any information on
> leamhall.com. So maybe it's a random-ish github page? I've removed the
> GitHub page CNAME stuff and leamhall.com should revert to Hover's standard
> "No page here yet" page. We'll see in a few minutes.
>
> Does that make sense? I don't run the DNS for it. Also, I just checked the
> files and there's no hokey index file in there.
>
> Leam
>
>
> On 10/16/24 08:13, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Cute girl on your page!!
>>
>> When I look at "leamhall.com", I see:
>> $ host leamhall.com
>> leamhall.com has address 192.30.252.153
>> leamhall.com has address 192.30.252.154
>> leamhall.com mail is handled by 10 mx.hover.com.cust.hostedemail.com.
>>
>> Is this the correct DNS configuration?
>>
>> Show us your DNS zone file.
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> On Wed, October 16, 2024 9:04 am, Leam Hall via Ale wrote:
>>> Hey all, turning to the smart folks for insight.
>>>
>>> I have a GitHub pages site and point my "name site", leamhall.com to
>>> it,
>>> as well as others. The others work, but leamhall.com comes up with a
>>> page
>>> that I have no idea how it got there. I've compared the DNS record info
>>> on
>>> Hover, changed my default nameserver from google 8.8.8.8 to Hover's, to
>>> no
>>> avail.
>>>
>>> What am I missing?
>>>
>>> Leam
>
>
> --
> Linux Automation Engineer (reuel.net/resume)
> Scribe: The Domici War    (domiciwar.net)
> General Ne'er-do-well     (github.com/LeamHall)
>


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