Woohoo. Getting Publicity!

bastiat · June 12, 2002, 12:08 PM

My little 'gun show loophole' movie hit the 'kinda close to big time' today with mentions on both the popular
InstaPundit.com and The Corner on National Review Online .

Yeehah. I just love it when the truth spreads!

braindead0 · June 12, 2002, 12:17 PM

The downside is; your server is overloaded with hits now...

Or, there's a big problem between here and there. Can't ping you at all, host not found errors. Can't get to any pages...

Time for that big upgrade ;-)?

bastiat · June 12, 2002, 12:26 PM

Just checked again and everything is humming along fine. You may be experiencing a DNS problem that I haven't been able to figure out yet. Anybody that can't get there through the domain name should be able to reach the site directly at
http://64.32.255.141

braindead0 · June 12, 2002, 12:35 PM

Well, the IP works.. I've been on your site before, strange.

OF · June 12, 2002, 12:47 PM

I can get in via the IP, but not the flashbunny address.

- Gabe

bastiat · June 12, 2002, 12:50 PM

It seems to be some sort of dns problem. I'm not sure what is exactly happening - looks like the dns records are disappearing???

I'll be checking into it ASAP. very strange indeed.

OF · June 12, 2002, 12:50 PM

Good job, Bastiat! Congrats on the blurbs too - the more the merrier.

- Gabe

foghornl · June 12, 2002, 01:18 PM

Some blissninny ISP probably wiped you from their DNS listings. Should sort itself out within 12-24 hours, though, as the routing tables rebuild

bastiat · June 12, 2002, 02:01 PM

It's not just one ISP, it's several right now. Can't even resolve it on web based nslookup. Cain is being raised as I type this. What a perfect time for this to happen.

John/az2 · June 12, 2002, 02:24 PM

Bastiat!

Congrats! It's always a thrill to see an unsolicited third party promoting your work!

And it's a real tweak on your bandwidth.

Maybe you've exceeded your alotment already for the month?

bastiat · June 12, 2002, 02:35 PM

Nope, there's no allotment to go over. I've checked the dns entries and it just plained stopped resolving the domain name.

Luckily, I emailed instapundit and national review and they both changed their links to the direct IP address in a few minutes. So the disaster only lasted an hour or so.

I'm thinking it might be a gun-grabber plot against me. I've got the tinfoil hat on right now.

OF · June 12, 2002, 03:46 PM

You may want to switch to the IP in your sig line, too.

- Gabe

bastiat · June 12, 2002, 04:09 PM

Thanks for that. So many things to change when somone completely screws up.

I've just heard back that the domain registrar, who handles the dns, said there was some kind of 'software error' when someone else updated their domain records. Gee, that's comforting to know a user screw up can mess up domain records

MikeK · June 12, 2002, 04:11 PM

Received the link last week from a local gun show promoter (few left in MD). Although I have been to your site before due to TFL postings it was good to see it getting more publicity.

DMK · June 12, 2002, 04:28 PM

Great work! Keep it up!!

Mr. James · June 12, 2002, 05:21 PM

I could only view it via Kopel's link on the NRO site.

man, bastiat, that is OUTSTANDING!

"BIG....FAT....LIE"

bastiat · June 12, 2002, 05:41 PM

Thank you, thank you very much (in elvis voice)

It looks like the DNS records are starting to be corrected. I'll probably give it another day before I roll out the next movie, just to be safe.

Jim March · June 12, 2002, 07:43 PM

During the Bush vs. Gore race, I came across some interesting pictures. Gore ran for Prez in 1988 I think it was, back when he was MUCH more "conservative". His state-level campaign manager for Kansas was a guy name of Phelps. Pictures were still online showing Gore arm-in-arm with Phelps and his family.

I publicized this as far and wide as I could, and within hours every site with the pics started crashing. Mostly DOS attacks, some DNS bonkers stuff, etc.

Why?

Well, the "Reverend" Phelps went on to gain notoriety with his ministry and website - so help me, his URL is http://www.godhatesfags.com :barf:

This idiot and his "congregation" picket the funerals of AIDS victims, hurling abuse at all present, including the deceased.

Some sort of left-wing professional Internet "hit squad" tried to squelch those pictures! And there was another budding Gore scandal late in the game where the same thing happened.

My site has been repeatedly hacked, so has KABA and a lot of others. The NRA's firewall is said to be a fearsome beast indeed - if they could find some genuine "Black ICE" William Gibson style, they'd probably load it

.

Tin hat my ass, they really ARE out to get us!

thumbtack · June 13, 2002, 12:06 AM

Hey that was really good work, simple and to the point.

June 12, 2002, 12:08 PM	#1
bastiat Senior Member Join Date: February 14, 2001 Posts: 1,772	Woohoo. Getting Publicity! My little 'gun show loophole' movie hit the 'kinda close to big time' today with mentions on both the popular InstaPundit.com and The Corner on National Review Online . Yeehah. I just love it when the truth spreads! __________________ Flashbunny.org - Pro-Freedom Propaganda Politically Incorrect & Pro-Gun Stuff To Buy

June 12, 2002, 12:17 PM	#2
braindead0 Senior Member Join Date: February 28, 2002 Location: Canton, Oh Posts: 896	The downside is; your server is overloaded with hits now... Or, there's a big problem between here and there. Can't ping you at all, host not found errors. Can't get to any pages... Time for that big upgrade ;-)? __________________ DoD# 2223 Meum scapha volitare plenum anguillae

June 12, 2002, 12:26 PM	#3
bastiat Senior Member Join Date: February 14, 2001 Posts: 1,772	Just checked again and everything is humming along fine. You may be experiencing a DNS problem that I haven't been able to figure out yet. Anybody that can't get there through the domain name should be able to reach the site directly at http://64.32.255.141 __________________ Flashbunny.org - Pro-Freedom Propaganda Politically Incorrect & Pro-Gun Stuff To Buy

June 12, 2002, 12:35 PM	#4
braindead0 Senior Member Join Date: February 28, 2002 Location: Canton, Oh Posts: 896	Well, the IP works.. I've been on your site before, strange. __________________ DoD# 2223 Meum scapha volitare plenum anguillae

June 12, 2002, 12:50 PM	#6
bastiat Senior Member Join Date: February 14, 2001 Posts: 1,772	It seems to be some sort of dns problem. I'm not sure what is exactly happening - looks like the dns records are disappearing??? I'll be checking into it ASAP. very strange indeed. __________________ Flashbunny.org - Pro-Freedom Propaganda Politically Incorrect & Pro-Gun Stuff To Buy

June 12, 2002, 12:47 PM	#5
OF Senior Member Join Date: April 12, 2000 Posts: 2,239	I can get in via the IP, but not the flashbunny address. - Gabe

June 12, 2002, 01:18 PM	#8
foghornl Senior Member Join Date: March 18, 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,355	Some blissninny ISP probably wiped you from their DNS listings. Should sort itself out within 12-24 hours, though, as the routing tables rebuild

June 12, 2002, 02:01 PM	#9
bastiat Senior Member Join Date: February 14, 2001 Posts: 1,772	It's not just one ISP, it's several right now. Can't even resolve it on web based nslookup. Cain is being raised as I type this. What a perfect time for this to happen. __________________ Flashbunny.org - Pro-Freedom Propaganda Politically Incorrect & Pro-Gun Stuff To Buy

June 12, 2002, 02:24 PM	#10
John/az2 Senior Member Join Date: February 18, 1999 Location: Arizona Posts: 2,729	Bastiat! Congrats! It's always a thrill to see an unsolicited third party promoting your work! And it's a real tweak on your bandwidth. Maybe you've exceeded your alotment already for the month? __________________ John/az Six Blind Sheep \| The Publishing Site \| Online Product Reviews

June 12, 2002, 02:35 PM	#11
bastiat Senior Member Join Date: February 14, 2001 Posts: 1,772	Nope, there's no allotment to go over. I've checked the dns entries and it just plained stopped resolving the domain name. Luckily, I emailed instapundit and national review and they both changed their links to the direct IP address in a few minutes. So the disaster only lasted an hour or so. I'm thinking it might be a gun-grabber plot against me. I've got the tinfoil hat on right now. __________________ Flashbunny.org - Pro-Freedom Propaganda Politically Incorrect & Pro-Gun Stuff To Buy

June 12, 2002, 03:46 PM	#12
OF Senior Member Join Date: April 12, 2000 Posts: 2,239	You may want to switch to the IP in your sig line, too. - Gabe

June 12, 2002, 04:09 PM	#13
bastiat Senior Member Join Date: February 14, 2001 Posts: 1,772	Thanks for that. So many things to change when somone completely screws up. I've just heard back that the domain registrar, who handles the dns, said there was some kind of 'software error' when someone else updated their domain records. Gee, that's comforting to know a user screw up can mess up domain records __________________ Flashbunny.org - Pro-Freedom Propaganda Politically Incorrect & Pro-Gun Stuff To Buy

June 12, 2002, 04:11 PM	#14
MikeK Senior Member Join Date: February 13, 2000 Location: MD Posts: 566	Received the link last week from a local gun show promoter (few left in MD). Although I have been to your site before due to TFL postings it was good to see it getting more publicity.

June 12, 2002, 04:28 PM	#15
DMK Senior Member Join Date: November 18, 2001 Location: Over the hills and far, far away Posts: 2,295	Great work! Keep it up!! __________________ DMK - Homeland Security begins at home: Support your Second Amendment. - Remember to support friends who support us: http://www.gunowners.org/ - http://www.nra.org/ http://www.jpfo.org/ - http://keepandbeararms.com/ http://www.2asisters.org/ http://www.grnc.org/ - http://www.ncrpa.org/

June 12, 2002, 05:21 PM	#16
Mr. James Senior Member Join Date: April 10, 2001 Location: The Old Dominion Posts: 1,499	I could only view it via Kopel's link on the NRO site. man, bastiat, that is OUTSTANDING! "BIG....FAT....LIE" __________________ "...A humble and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise." Ps. li "When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." —Frederic Bastiat

June 12, 2002, 05:41 PM	#17
bastiat Senior Member Join Date: February 14, 2001 Posts: 1,772	Thank you, thank you very much (in elvis voice) It looks like the DNS records are starting to be corrected. I'll probably give it another day before I roll out the next movie, just to be safe. __________________ Flashbunny.org - Pro-Freedom Propaganda Politically Incorrect & Pro-Gun Stuff To Buy

June 12, 2002, 07:43 PM	#18
Jim March Senior Member Join Date: February 14, 1999 Location: Pittsburg, CA, USA Posts: 7,016	During the Bush vs. Gore race, I came across some interesting pictures. Gore ran for Prez in 1988 I think it was, back when he was MUCH more "conservative". His state-level campaign manager for Kansas was a guy name of Phelps. Pictures were still online showing Gore arm-in-arm with Phelps and his family. I publicized this as far and wide as I could, and within hours every site with the pics started crashing. Mostly DOS attacks, some DNS bonkers stuff, etc. Why? Well, the "Reverend" Phelps went on to gain notoriety with his ministry and website - so help me, his URL is http://www.godhatesfags.com :barf: This idiot and his "congregation" picket the funerals of AIDS victims, hurling abuse at all present, including the deceased. Some sort of left-wing professional Internet "hit squad" tried to squelch those pictures! And there was another budding Gore scandal late in the game where the same thing happened. My site has been repeatedly hacked, so has KABA and a lot of others. The NRA's firewall is said to be a fearsome beast indeed - if they could find some genuine "Black ICE" William Gibson style, they'd probably load it . Tin hat my ass, they really ARE out to get us! __________________ Jim March

June 13, 2002, 12:06 AM	#19
thumbtack Senior Member Join Date: March 12, 2001 Location: Garland, Texas Posts: 724	Hey that was really good work, simple and to the point. __________________ Nothing to see here, move along.