[pp.int.general] PPCH behind wikileaks.ch - gj

[Nicolas Sahlqvist]

Nice work, but I count 15 DNS servers! ;)


- Nicolas


On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Pascal Gloor
<pascal.gloor at partipirate.ch>wrote:

> Hello Rick and all other fellow Pirates!!
>
> > Hat off to you guys -- this is activism in practice. Good job. I love it
> > when given an opportunity to show that we put our money where our mouth
> > is, and I have the utmost respect for others who do the same.
>
> Thank you Rick!
>
> Its really the first moment I have since friday morning to answer this
> thread. I have told this story over and over to journalists so you might
> have already heard it (but they always do mistakes so I'll tell it here).
>
> In june 2010, a swiss pirate, owner of the wikileaks.ch domain asked us
> (the board) if we would like to get the domain to show our support to
> WikiLeaks. We agreed, transferred the domain to the party, redirected the
> domain to the wikileaks.org site and sent an email to WikiLeaks to inform
> them of our support and domain redirection.
>
> Friday morning, WikiLeaks noticed their .org domain was cut off by everyDNS
> (NOT easyDNS!!!) and somehow they remembered that this wikileaks.ch was
> around and working. So they twittered it!
>
> 7 minutes later, I had a call from the Associated Press in Geneva asking me
> WTH was going on and I was like huh???. At this point and until now, we have
> probably (I quickly stopped counting) answered to over 50-60 media
> interviews, TV, radio, newspapers and press agencies.
>
> As this was all not planned we were using everyDNS as dns hosters for
> wikileaks.ch. Still, it took them 9 hours to figure it out and cut it off.
> We fixed it within hours.
>
> The DNS is now stable, we have 14 name servers from all around the europe
> and we DO have easyDNS as secondary. They wanted to help us due to the whole
> confusion between everyDNS and easyDNS.
>
> We currently round-robin the website at Bahnhof in Sweden and OVH in
> France. We will be adding some additional 'official' mirrors soon. (you
> might have seen that WikiLeaks started to mirror and they have ~80 mirror
> sites under their control now!).
>
>
> Have a nice week!
>
> ---
>
> Pascal Gloor
> Vice President of the Pirate Party Switzerland
>
>
> PS for Rick: Our short name is PPS in all 4 national languages and in
> english too, no offense, just saying ;)
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