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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Billsey on September 07, 2003, 03:27:38 AM

Title: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: Billsey on September 07, 2003, 03:27:38 AM
...or sold off to some loser? I won't provide a link, as I don't want to have people pissed off when they click it. I did find that us.aminet.net still works as expected.

All I'm going to say here is that when I typed the www one in last (this very evening) I didn't get what I expected, and there were lots of pop-up windows.
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: walter on September 07, 2003, 03:53:39 AM
Worked fine for me just now.
Using IBrowse 2.3.
No pop-ups.  Huh?
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: tony23 on September 07, 2003, 03:55:52 AM
@Billsey, www.aminet.net seems fine from my end also, no popups and nothing to get pissed about. Maybe your browser/systems been hijacked ?
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: Billsey on September 07, 2003, 04:04:29 AM
I get forwarded to here (http://www.aminet.org).
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: tony23 on September 07, 2003, 04:10:44 AM
Hmm... Very strange, :-? Doesn't do that to me from here. Maybe some kinda bug in your browser ? I don't know whats up with that , I hope that someone can help you sort it out though.
 :-)
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: meerschaum on September 07, 2003, 04:10:46 AM
gotta love forced popups in mass numbers
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: Plaz on September 07, 2003, 04:23:13 AM
aminet.net works fine for me. aminet.org is trash.
I'm using opera brower with popups blocked so I didn't see the rest of the trash you mentioned when I went to aminet.org, just the main ad page.

Plaz
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: N7VQM on September 07, 2003, 04:48:23 AM
@Billsey

www.aminet.net works fine for me, as well.  Perhaps your ISP is having DNS probs?
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: Billsey on September 08, 2003, 12:44:01 PM
OK,

Additional testing puts it down to Safari, the browser for OSX, because Internet Explorer5 and Netscape Navigator4.7 don't do it here either.
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: tintin on September 08, 2003, 12:58:56 PM
It's aminet.net (http://www.aminet.net) not  aminet.org (http://www.aminet.org) :-)
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: tony23 on September 08, 2003, 01:08:13 PM
Hi Billsey, I'm glad to hear its nothing major, still it's kinda strange why it would do that. :-?
At least now you can get to Aminet !

I guess you could try to report it to the Safari people and see if they maybe know whats up with it ? but you know how it is tryin to get real answers from some outfits. :-?

Anyways... Happy Surfing !  :-)
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: tony23 on September 08, 2003, 01:12:04 PM
Hi tintin, Ya we know, he was typing .net in his browser but it would send him to .org . Its something to do with his browser.

Cheers :-)
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: Billsey on September 08, 2003, 01:18:26 PM
I got to a feedback page and entered the following post to them:

Quote

After testing with Safari, Internet Explorer5, and Netscape Communicator4.7, I have concluded that there is some kind of bug in Safari 1.0.

Whenever I try to go to www.aminet.net with Safari, I get redirected to www.aminet.org instead. The two sites are completely different than each other, and Explorer and Navigator do not behave in this manner when going to this website, www.aminet.net.

Other users have also tried going to www.aminet.net and they have not been redirected either.

I am using Safari 1.0 on OSX 10.2.6; Mac G4 at 400MHz with 576 megabytes of RAM.


Then got a noticed about how support feedback should be sent to their support forums, which then got me into a tangled web of trying to log in to that. I never did figure out my ID and password to do that.  :-x
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: tintin on September 08, 2003, 01:27:35 PM
Okay, just making sure it wasn't some simple typing mistake 8-)
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: tony23 on September 08, 2003, 01:33:28 PM
@ Billsey

Ya , some companys make it so fun when trying to deal with them , its like they think if they make it hard enough most people won't even bother.

I'd say don't give up just yet and try a bit more before you give up in desperation. Then if you do get some kind of explaination at least you'll know whats up with it.

Chow fer now T.  :-)
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: danamania on September 08, 2003, 01:40:13 PM
It works fine from here too - on Safari 1.0
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: lorddef on September 08, 2003, 02:12:36 PM
Maybe the DNS lookup table in safari has been modified so aminet.net goes to aminet.org?

Either that or its your ISP being dumb.
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: lempkee on September 08, 2003, 02:20:34 PM
yeah happens to me alot, i forget the address :)

amiga.net  , annlu.org  ,aminet.com etc... :P


ohwell i hope you get it sorted soon..

glad i am on ibrowse 2.3 as that popup link was tempting so i checked it out..got a you need ie or netscape bøa bla to view this site...so lol :)

cheers
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: mikeymike on September 08, 2003, 02:31:01 PM
aminet.net works fine for me (on BT Internet).

Hmm, no pop-ups here on aminet.org, maybe it's because of this (http://www.mozilla.org/)? :-)

The reason for the 'redirection' might be a timeout in the lookup, then browser does the 'name guessing' job (.com, .net, .org) and ends up at aminet.org?  The bad name resolution then gets cached?
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: Billsey on September 08, 2003, 06:21:48 PM
You know, that might have something to do with it. Danamania, what type of account do you have---56k, 28.8k, or broadband? I'm on a dialup that is supposed to support 56k, but that doesn't ever connect beyond 33.6k.

For now, I'm just gonna go to us.aminet.net, as that one doesn't redirect on me.
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: Billsey on September 08, 2003, 06:26:18 PM
Just checked the source code at www.aminet.net from work. There's nothing there that would do it; no redirect at all, and the title indicates that typing in "us." instead of "www." just brings you quicker to the same place.

We're getting it narrowed down, though. :-)
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: Framiga on September 08, 2003, 06:49:19 PM
Quote
by Billsey on 2003/9/7 5:04:29

I get forwarded to here.

Incredible! An Amiga-oriented site (aminet.org) that with IB2.3 without spoofing requires:

"This site is working only under IE 4 and higher and Netscape 4 and higher.
Please update your browser"

With spoofing ON, it redirect to . ..DomainSPA.org page.

Ciao

Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: KennyR on September 08, 2003, 06:53:55 PM
Checking user agent is such a retarded way of checking the capabilities of a browser. Sites that check user agent should be banned from the internet until they learn how to code.
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: mikeymike on September 08, 2003, 07:02:33 PM
@ KennyR

While I agree with your first statement, you do seem to love the idea of banning everyone left right and centre :)
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: iamaboringperson on September 08, 2003, 07:18:27 PM
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mikeymike wrote:
@ KennyR

While I agree with your first statement, you do seem to love the idea of banning everyone left right and centre :)

That's why we call him a NAZI.
"I don't like guns, ban them!"
"I don't like marriage, ban it!"
"I don't like capitalism, ban it!!"
"I don't like rich people, ban them!"
"I don't like religion XY&Z, ban them all."
"I don't like jews, ban them!"

That is his main philosophy. "Ban what I don't like", "Fund what I do like out of tax payer money"
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: KennyR on September 08, 2003, 07:25:20 PM
And people who don't want stuff banned should be banned too. :-P
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: KennyR on September 08, 2003, 07:26:12 PM
Huh ima, you're far closer to a Nazi than I am, Mr. Greed is Good.
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: odin on September 08, 2003, 09:13:37 PM
Nothing to see here folks, move along and don't feed the trolls. Like I am doing now.... :-o
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: Billsey on September 08, 2003, 09:21:12 PM
@Odin:
:lol:
Title: Re: Has www.aminet.net Been Hijacked?
Post by: mikeymike on September 08, 2003, 09:34:20 PM
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Nothing to see here folks, move along and don't feed the trolls.


Good idea :-)

Or I could just gag the trolls instead... locking thread now.

Dear GOD!

@ imaboringperson

Why the heck did you have to go and say that?  This isn't comp.sys.amiga.* you know...

@ KennyR

You could have tried not rising to it...