[SOLVED] Oi! What Happened to Gnome-look.org??

[nufros]

It seemed fine yesterday... now when I go to http://www.gnome-look.org/, all I get is redirected here http://www2.searchresultsdirect.com/parking.php4?domain=gnome-look.org&registrar=238091&eq=6f9ee28c3b53cb947e87f56c90d280d3

Anybody know what's up? :confused:

[pt123]

I was just about to post this too

I am getting the same page too.

http://kde-look.org/ is fine

[Kingsley]

It's working now.

[SuperSonic4]

kde-look was the same a few days ago. I just think it's getting a facelift

[damis648]

All I am getting is one of those place-holder sites... what is happening? Is this a sign of the apocalypse?!

[igknighted]

All I am getting is one of those place-holder sites... what is happening? Is this a sign of the apocalypse?!

KDE-look works fine, but I get the same thing on gnome-look. Probably a DNS error somewhere.

[binbash]

All I am getting is one of those place-holder sites... what is happening? Is this a sign of the apocalypse?!

There is nothing wrong here?

[sstecken]

I just did a fresh install and went to Gnome-look.org after upgrading the default system and loading in some nvidia drivers.

Does anyone else get redirected to:
http://www2.searchresultsdirect.com/parking.php4?domain=gnome-look.org&registrar=238091&eq=6f9ee28c3b53cb947e87f56c90d280d3

Edit: I can see that the title bar says "Eye candy" but then it immediately redirects. Is it me or were they hijacked?

[damis648]

Yes, it is very wierd... can we get a thread merge?:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=982426

[siafok]

I am suprised too, dont know what is going on.

[damis648]

I am suprised too, dont know what is going on.

Scary stuff here.:popcorn:

[KillerZ]

Its working for me. Strange.

[scouser73]

It's working for me also.

[sisco311]

it's working for me.

try: http://87.106.93.206/

[sstecken]

If you turn on NoScript in Firefox, it doesn't redirect, but the page is definitely messed up.

[init1]

Working fine here

[init1]

Yeah, it was working about 2 minutes ago, but now I'm geting that domain place-holder page. Strange.

[doorknob60]

Works for me (I use OpenDNS, maybe your DNS server isn't as quick updating and they changed servers or something, IDK)

[elmer_42]

It's not working here, either.

[super.rad]

yeah working fine for me aswell (using openDNS aswell)

[init1]

It's working now, but it stops working every few minutes.

[bswilson]

Still down for me. A quick dig query shows that the A record is the same IP address as kde-look.org.

However, if you look at the Authority section, inwx.de is the domain that controls the record. I don't believe that inwx.de is malicious, but that is a Gernam domain registrar's name, whereas 87.106.93.206 is from Amsterdam.

Sounds like a DNS screwup somewhere.


$ dig www.gnome-look.org A

; <<>> DiG 9.5.0-P2 <<>> www.gnome-look.org A
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 49280
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.gnome-look.org. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.gnome-look.org. 3600 IN A 87.106.93.206

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
gnome-look.org. 86400 IN NS ns3.inwx.de.
gnome-look.org. 86400 IN NS ns2.inwx.de.
gnome-look.org. 86400 IN NS ns.inwx.de.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns3.inwx.de. 2453 IN A 217.20.112.194
ns2.inwx.de. 2453 IN A 213.239.206.103
ns.inwx.de. 1032 IN A 217.70.142.66

;; Query time: 152 msec
;; SERVER: 24.25.5.149#53(24.25.5.149)
;; WHEN: Fri Nov 14 18:56:57 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 160

[bswilson]

I forgot to say, look at the dig information for kde-look.org. The Authority section is owned by WorldNIC in the US.


;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.kde-look.org. 7200 IN A 87.106.65.160
;; AUTHORITY SECTION: kde-look.org. 5307 IN NS ns9.worldnic.com. kde-look.org. 5307 IN NS ns10.worldnic.com

[BobCFC]

Same problem here.

Compiz-themes.org is still up,so is opendesktop.org

[gkrules]

I think the site has been hijacked.
WOT warns that the site is a suspected malware site and will try and put malware/viruses on your computer.


I don't know why they would do that to a linux website but whatever.

[SomeGuyDude]

Rolling along fine here.

[eternalnewbee]

Not working here.

[Meshach]

Works fine for me...


Clear your cache.



Meshach

[mrgnash]

Getting the redirect here.

[yaknowwat]

http://www.gnome-look.org

It doesn't seem to be there does anyone know what happened to it?
This could be a serious issue. I was about to look for some themes and noticed it.

[yaknowwat]

How do we get gnome look back?

[Mardoct909]

Umm... What? Noticed what? Sometimes sites go down. When it happens, you try again tomorrow.

[tvtech]

what do you mean it's gone? I go there lickity split. even downloaded a couple desktops while I was at it. perhaps your having an isp problem you should do a traceroute and see what's going on.

[ciscosurfer]

...It doesn't seem to be there does anyone know what happened to it? This could be a serious issue.You could look into using OpenDNS (http://www.opendns.com/).

[Frak]

Getting the redirect here.
Sounds like a poisoned DNS cache on whichever sub-continental hub you happen to be going through.

While chances are low, it could happen :P

[tvtech]

You could look into using OpenDNS (http://www.opendns.com/).

don't do it!

[Meshach]

Sounds like a poisoned DNS cache on whichever sub-continental hub you happen to be going through.

While chances are low, it could happen :P


I think that might be it...


For those of you who are getting the redirect, maybe try using the opendns.com (http://www.opendns.com) dns servers?



Regards,
Meshach

[eternalnewbee]

Works fine for me...


Clear your cache.

Didn't work.

[Mardoct909]

It's fine for me. Maybe it's because I have no script.

Just tried without it... Nope, that's not it.

[ciscosurfer]

don't do it!Whatever floats your boat ;-)

[voteforpedro36]

Lol it goes down like once a month, there are so many of these threads around.

[Saint Angeles]

gnome-look is full of jealous artists that like to rate every theme bad, if it's not theirs.

they really need to change that rating system to one that only takes s "good" rating. that way, the best ones will have the best ratings... this whle "lets start at 50%" thing is pretty dumb.

[mrgnash]

gnome-look is full of jealous artists that like to rate every theme bad, if it's not theirs.

they really need to change that rating system to one that only takes s "good" rating. that way, the best ones will have the best ratings... this whle "lets start at 50%" thing is pretty dumb.

Nonsense. Good themes generally, but not always, receive good ratings. Most of the antipathy is toward the multitude of OSX/Vista ripoffs which do indeed deserve to be rated poorly.

[Tprnyc]

http://gnome-look.org - sends me to the BS site.

http://www.gnome-look.org - sends me to the real site.

:confused:

[wolfen69]

gnome-look.org doesn't work for me.

[Anduu]

Here's my situation...

Go to gnome-look with Opera it works fine...Use Firefox and get redirected...

Tried clearing cache but no change

Ack! :confused:

[Anduu]

Opera gets me to gnome-look just fine...Firefox gets me redirected.

Tried clearing cache but no dice.

Any ideas?

[Mardoct909]

Works fine in FF for me.

[Anduu]

This is just plain goofy....Oh well,we'll see where things are at tomorrow.

[Kantis]

Neither Firefox nor Opera works for me, I get the same redirection from both.

[armageddon08]

Me too :(

[perfectska04]

http://gnome-look.org - sends me to the BS site.

http://www.gnome-look.org - sends me to the real site.

:confused:

They both send me to the BS site. :confused:

[Yellow Pasque]

It looks fine to me in Swiftweasel(FF) 3.03

[garfilth]

Tried in FF, Opera and Epiphany no joy.

Checked the site in site advisor ( the site thats there now ) and they give it a green but one reviewer says Adware, Spyware and Viruses.

very strange. kde-look and xfce-look are fine.

[scouser73]

I've tried it on Firefox and it works, I'm unsure as to why you are being redirected.

[bapoumba]

I've merged all the gnome-look access issues in this thread.

[b0b138]

The site seems to be back up.

[damis648]

The site seems to be back up.

Thats all great and all, but does anyone know actually what happened?

[eternalnewbee]

The site seems to be back up.
Just a couple of minutes. Then it's "the smiling ladies' screen of death".

[hoagie]

It works fine for me, Im using Firefox.

[Martje_001]

Defaced maby?

[bonzodog]

I cannot get into gnome-look either, but all other *-look sites are fine. You can use xfce-look for GTK themes, compiz/emerald has its own site, and there is box-look for the box WM users.

[init1]

It's working (for now)

[lukjad]

it's working now.
+1

[nufros]

It's working (for now)


I marked this thread as [SOLVED] because the problem seems to have sorted itself out... it would be nice to know definitively what happened though... I'm kinda leaning toward dns error

oh well... at least it's back, so now I can continue the never-ending project of customizing my GDE :lolflag:

[billmx1313]

Its not working!!

[lisati]

I wonder what this thread did to have its sleep disrupted after three years.