Friday, May 27, 2016

Birther Report site failures drag on into 4th week

On May 3, reports Dr. Conspiracy on his leftist propaganda site Obama Conspiracy Theories, somebody screwed up the DNS records for Birther Report, and now its users have a 20% chance of being unable to reach the site for extended periods of time. He noted that the site may have been failing earlier; May 3 is just the last update to the DNS records.

Dr. Con (as the denizens of Birther Report call him) provided a detailed analysis of the problem and how to fix it over a week ago, and other commenters at BR have pointed out the problem too. Nevertheless, inexplicably, even though Dr. Conspiracy went even so far as to post the information on BR itself, the site remains in its half broken state.

Dr. Conspiracy, known for excessive bragging over his intelligence and technical superiority, has been rubbing salt in BR’s wounds by a series of pedantic, know-it-all comments on the BR site, which have been met with righteous profanity. His mocking remarks citing examples where birthers had attributed the failure to all manner of nonsense, not the least of which included blocking of the site by Obots and Google censorship, were not well received.

Some obots have speculated that the faulty DNS record points to the server in Bob Nelson’s trunk that BR commenters donated money to pay for, so that BR could be free from the threat of Google stopping them from serving malware. Over 2 years have passed and that server was never deployed. Of course deploying the new server would require someone know something about DNS records, which seems to be beyond the technical capacity of the present BR management.

Further speculation says that BR owner Bob Nelson has been incapacitated and is unable to repair the site, noting that he has made no comments on the site since late April, when he made the enigmatic post:
Because it has been under constant attack for over a month now.
The crisis is ongoing.

Update:

Still broken 5/28/2016

Still broken 11/13/2016