- ns-aws & ns-azure have been replaced by ns-hetzner & ns-ovh
- ns-azure has been completely destroyed (`terraform apply -destroy`);
the elastic IP has been released, so there's no hope of bringing it
back.
- ns-aws has been renamed to "blocked.sslip.io". It no longer answers
DNS queries, but lives on as the website we point "blocked" queries to
that warns about phishing.
- Some of the Markdown files' changes were mere reformatting changes
When using dig to determine the metrics of my servers, e.g. "dig txt
metrics.status.sslip.io @ns-ovh.sslip.io +short", one record looks
particularly heinous:
```
"Answer \226\137\165 1: 67974722 (651.9/s)"
```
It's supposed to look like this:
```
"Answer ≥ 1: 67974722 (651.9/s)"
```
`dig` doesn't handle Unicode well. So I'm replacing "Answer ≥ 1" with
"Answer > 0". No Unicode.
It was a worthy effort, but ultimately failed.
I've always been uncomfortable with the metric "Answered Queries" — it
implies that we don't answer all the queries. But we do answer all the
queries!
What the metric meant is "the number of DNS responses that we send that
have one or more records in the ANSWER section".
The new metric is "Answer ≥ 1". Not great, but better than before.
- remove the alert about not using the sslip.io nameservers as
general-purpose nameservers — I feel if they're looking at the page,
they already know enough not to use the nameservers as recursive
nameservers.
- deprecate ns-azure.
- extend the shutdown to 12/25 for ns-aws & ns-azure
- add a shoutout to Let's Encrypt
`tidy`, a UNIX-based HTML-formatter, has had its day in the sun, but
with the advent of VS Code, which I'll be using often to modify the
HTML, it makes more sense to format within the editor rather than in a
separate terminal window.
The torrent of traffic I'm receiving has caused my AWS bill to spike
from $9 to $148, all of the increase due to bandwidth charges.
I'm still maintaining ns-aws; the VM still continue to run, and continue
to serve web traffic, and maintain its hostname and IP addresses;
however, it will no longer be in the list of NS records for sslip.io.
There are much less expensive hosting providers. OVH is my current
favorite.
- located in Warsaw, Poland
- IPv4: 51.75.53.19
- IPv6: 2001:41d0:602:2313::1
The crux of this is to take the load off ns-aws, which jumped from
$12.66 → $20.63 → $38.51 → $62.30 in the last four months due to
bandwidth charges exceeding 10 TB.
The real fix is to randomize the order in which the nameservers are
returned.
The sslip.io service has been abused by scammers and phishers who create
sites that masquerade as legitimate sites. For example,
<https://nf-43-134-66-67.sslip.io/sg> masqueraded as Netflix.
To combat this, we've undertaken to block all sites that masquerade as a
legitimate sites, but this had the unfortunate consequence of ensnaring
a legitimate staging site (th-ab.de).
This commit assists developers by updating the documentation to warn
developers not to index their staging site.
[#53]
When we promoted the Golang code to the root of the repo, we neglected
to update the paths in the documentation, helper scripts, and pipelines.
This commit addresses that oversight by updating the paths.
The GKE's cluster's IP address is now an ephemeral IP because otherwise
I'd have to pay $360 extra per year from a premium-tier load balancer.
I don't want my website to point to an ephemeral address that quickly
becomes stale, so I'm pointing from what previously was the GKE
cluster's address to the AWS's NS server's address.
From
<https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/10759417>:
> Google Analytics 4 is replacing Universal Analytics. On July 1, 2023
all standard Universal Analytics properties will stop processing new
hits.
I wonder if Google Analytics is worth the trouble.
- Move "Directory Structure" lower down--it's not terribly useful,
certainly less useful than the "DNS Server" section.
- Remove the "tidy" turd at the bottom of the page. It adds no value,
and I'm not sure how it got there in the first place.
- A specific sections for flags such as `-nameservers`
- Add a section about running official Docker containers.
- get rid of the old, deprecated "faq" and "about" pages
[#21]
Also includes a gratuitous change to the HTML in order to trigger a
build.
Fixes <https://ci.nono.io/teams/main/pipelines/dockerfiles/jobs/build-and-push-sslip.io-nginx/builds/33>:
```
error: failed to solve: rpc error: code = Unknown desc = executor failed running [/bin/sh -c dnf install -y bind-utils iproute less lsof neovim net-tools nginx nmap-ncat procps-ng RUN mv /usr/share/nginx/html /usr/share/nginx/html-orig]: exit code: 1
```
