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Awesome posts. You know, the entire internet is abuzz with _why news right now, but... why? Sure, he deleted his internet presence. It's probably a healthy t

by dylanz 17y ago

Awesome posts. You know, the entire internet is abuzz with _why news right now, but... why? Sure, he deleted his internet presence. It's probably a healthy thing to do once in a while. Like spring cleaning! He's still alive people! He's probably happily riding a unicorn into a misty valley full of friends. Or, he could be camping.

noodle 17y ago
i couldn't help but think of this exchange when i saw all of the _why things - Nobody died. How can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action? - Then what died? Who are you mourning? - A point of view. Cain, Elbis O'Shaughnessy, and Abel, in Sandman: The Wake
- dylanz 17y ago
  That's a great exchange. Thanks for sharing that!
- ErrantX 17y ago
  thanks for reminding me of that :D read it years ago at school and you inspired me to dig a copy out.
blasdel 17y ago
Why are you so sure he's still alive? This could easily be his way of saying "don't look for me, I'm gone, not missing". It's sensible when you're as anonymous as he is -- how else are people going to find out you're not coming back? (without the inane drama of a flounce: http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Flounce http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Flounce)
- burke 17y ago
  ~ % dig +short hacketyhack.net 72.232.19.34 ~ % dig +short -x 72.232.19.34 Cewki.com. http://cewki.com http://cewki.com was registered today and says: where's _why? see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=773106 EDIT: So this is interesting. As far as I can tell, this site is hosted by Isaac Force, owner of autognosis.org, and ruby user. He lives in Oregon though, and is almost definitely not _why. Also, cewki is Polish for "coil". Maybe the problem is that I don't understand DNS. Is there some way reverse DNS could point at this guy's server without _why telling it to? What's going on? >_<
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  - Deadsunrise 17y ago
    In bind and most dns servers the ip reverse registers are saved in different zones than the domains. There are times when you get an ip address that was previously used and still has the reverse dns configured (usually ISPs cancel the domain or server but don't delete the reverse ip info). It's possible but not too likely to happen.

by dylanz 17y ago

noodle 17y ago

i couldn't help but think of this exchange when i saw all of the _why things - Nobody died. How can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action? - Then what died? Who are you mourning? - A point of view. Cain, Elbis O'Shaughnessy, and Abel, in Sandman: The Wake

dylanz 17y ago
That's a great exchange. Thanks for sharing that!
ErrantX 17y ago
thanks for reminding me of that :D read it years ago at school and you inspired me to dig a copy out.

blasdel 17y ago

Why are you so sure he's still alive? This could easily be his way of saying "don't look for me, I'm gone, not missing". It's sensible when you're as anonymous as he is -- how else are people going to find out you're not coming back? (without the inane drama of a flounce: http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Flounce http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Flounce)

burke 17y ago
~ % dig +short hacketyhack.net 72.232.19.34 ~ % dig +short -x 72.232.19.34 Cewki.com. http://cewki.com http://cewki.com was registered today and says: where's _why? see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=773106 EDIT: So this is interesting. As far as I can tell, this site is hosted by Isaac Force, owner of autognosis.org, and ruby user. He lives in Oregon though, and is almost definitely not _why. Also, cewki is Polish for "coil". Maybe the problem is that I don't understand DNS. Is there some way reverse DNS could point at this guy's server without _why telling it to? What's going on? >_<
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- Deadsunrise 17y ago
  In bind and most dns servers the ip reverse registers are saved in different zones than the domains. There are times when you get an ip address that was previously used and still has the reverse dns configured (usually ISPs cancel the domain or server but don't delete the reverse ip info). It's possible but not too likely to happen.