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:boosts_ok_gay: PSA: queer.af has been seized by the Afghanistan NIC

the domain does not resolve anymore, this means that the website cannot be accessed anymore

(i'm going to contact the admin to help them with allowing users to login still and press "migrate" on their accounts, since i have a feeling thats still possible, as a last-gasp effort of the server)

edit: for manual resolving and pinning, the IP address is 65.108.48.233

12 February at 8:40 | Open on tech.lgbt
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Ada :v_trans: :v_pan:​

@ShadowJonathan :neocat_sweat:​ that's a high-risk TLD if I ever saw one, hope they get their stuff off the server.

12 February at 8:41 | Open on tech.lgbt
Helle (@ CCC Camp πŸ“ž 4355)

@iamada @ShadowJonathan migration was uh, being planned during CCC Congress and kicked into high gear this January, but they thought they had another month or two.

I have a ton of friends on there and know the admins.

12 February at 8:43 | Open on tacobelllabs.net
Helle (@ CCC Camp πŸ“ž 4355)

@iamada @ShadowJonathan note the instance was created as a gag in 2018, when no one expected the Taliban to win and the registry was being managed from New Zealand

12 February at 8:44 | Open on tacobelllabs.net
extreme organic gay

@ShadowJonathan as long as your server thinks it's queer.af, it should probably go alright? and that's done easily with /etc/hosts

12 February at 8:42 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
extreme organic gay

@ShadowJonathan the bigger problem is the users to log in will also have to think it's queer.af, and that means teaching them about hosts or hooking up an alternate dns

12 February at 8:43 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
Mori :queercat_nb: :pentagram_transgender:

@ShadowJonathan Shit. Will the old fashion hosts file modification work? Sucks that it’s come to that…

12 February at 8:43 | Open on void.lgbt
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For anyone pinning the domain name to an IP address, the IP address is 65.108.48.233

You can verify this with;

curl https://queer.af/ --resolve queer.af:443:65.108.48.233 -v

12 February at 8:50 | Open on tech.lgbt
professional amateur :neocat_flag_trans:

@ShadowJonathan thanks, I have blocked and deleted that instance from my end

12 February at 9:09 | Open on sampleuser.nl
Deborah Pickett

LB πŸ‘† Unfortunately if you're a Mastodon instance offering to help members of queer.af to migrate to your server, editing /etc/hosts to manually add the IP address won't help, because Mastodon uses its own DNS resolver that bypasses /etc/hosts.

Edit: open issue here: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i

12 February at 9:14 | Open on old.mermaid.town
RAK

@ShadowJonathan: While I sympathise with the people who are caught in the middle of this, this is a good argument against the practice of TLD hacks.

12 February at 9:19 | Open on vmst.io
Jim Campbell

@ShadowJonathan

Is it ok to cross-post this on Bluesky or have you already done that?

12 February at 9:23 | Open on mastodon.online
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