{"id":10759,"date":"2014-07-02T10:35:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T14:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=10759"},"modified":"2014-07-02T10:36:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T14:36:52","slug":"the-hostile-takeover-of-no-ip-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=10759","title":{"rendered":"The Hostile Takeover of no-ip.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is just a warning of what will become of the Internet when judges and government agencies inject themselves into technical issues<\/p>\n

First a brief explanation of what no-ip.com does. Let’s say you had a web server hanging from your Time Warner Cable account, and the IP address constantly changes. You want to people to be able to reach the web site at www.streamingradioguide.com, even if the IP address of the connection changes. This is a non-issue for me, since my IP hasn’t changed in six months – if it did change often, I would have to manually set my new IP address. That requires that I notice it changed, am not asleep, and even so the web site would be unreachable for up to 3 days [typically more like 4 hours]<\/p>\n

So someone a very long time ago came up with the idea of “Dynamic DNS” to allow a redirection service to automatically follow my web server, no matter what its current IP address is. If you’ve ever poked around in your router, you may have seen DDNS and kept far away from it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"ddns\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I would go to the DDNS provider (like no-ip.com) and create an account – then this screen would login to my account and do the busy work to make sure that srguide.no-ip.com always pointed where it needed to be. My own DNS would stop being involved, and just answer “I don’t know – go to srguide.no-ip.com”. This adds a second step for visitors behind the scenes, but you would barely notice the speed difference.
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Microsoft decided that it is fed up with people turning their Windows machines into Swiss cheese and went to a judge and demanded that the no-ip.com domain be forfeited to them because no-ip.com “allowed” hackers to use their service…. by creating imabadguy.no-ip.com, hackers would stay on the move by using a redirection service. The Judge said “That sounds resonable!” and granted the order for Microsoft to take over another company’s business. <\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.noip.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/30\/ips-formal-statement-microsoft-takedown\/<\/a><\/p>\n

noip.com is a global company – there are an estimated 4 million web sites that depend on this service. Each time a visitor goes to one of those web sites, it generates a DNS request – which is billions of requests per day. Microsoft turned 4 million web sites dark in an instant.<\/p>\n

Their “purpose” in doing this is they want to be able to “filter” out “bad web sites” [“bad” in their opinion with no independent oversigh] . If they had pulled this off without dropping the ball, Microsoft would be acting as a DNS proxy, being able to watch (and LOG for the NSA) every single attempt by people to use one of the 4 million web sites all over the world. If I’m on the jury, I’m awarding no-ip.com $100 billion in damages for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is just a warning of what will become of the Internet when judges and government agencies inject themselves into technical issues First a brief explanation of what no-ip.com does. Let’s say you had a web server hanging from your … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collapse-of-america","category-global-finances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10763,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759\/revisions\/10763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}