a couple of people missed out on the story, so i thought i would fill
everyone in...

so, it all began with a message from nix to a few people...

  Well, my little troll to nab the bersuxer worked quite well.
  The "University of Bolo, Rochester" tag line finally got to him.

  Note that I have been carefully watching the log of who accesses
  tracker.  There haven't been any accesses from *.ambrosiasw.com
  all day.  Nor have there been any tracker accesses from either
  BL or Berz's cable modem addresses, all day.  The only numeric
  address is the 216.42.79.225 in question.

  IRC log follows, cleaned up a bit by myself:

  *moki* erm... 216.42.79.225 ain't us, Nix.
  -> *moki* who said it was?
  *moki* the tracker tagline
  *moki* is the one you have for us
  -> *moki* and how would you know what the tracker tagline is, not having
          accessed the tracker all day long?
  *moki* I was watching BL play, foo!
  -> *moki* he only use your tracker, not mine
  *moki* Our T is seriously going away on the 30th
  -> *moki* that is irrelavent
  *moki* huh?
  *moki* well, whatever -- you're wrong, though


  Notice the attempt to change the subject once he was cornered. Sigh.

  Oh well, the weekend's here.  Have fun.

  Don

i didn't really get the whole story until i cornered nix into talking to 
me about the thing on irc...  he gave me the insight i needed to face
andrew 1x1 about the thing.  i wanted to let him walk into it and it was
the perfect chance to do it when andrew was trolling around with black
flag.  so i threw him some bait...

  <vert> <saffron> so any bomber sightings today?
  <vert> bahaha
  <vert> mr. troll boy over there

he bites...

  <saffron> eh?
  <Jolo> bomber?
  <saffron> oh, you're on the conspiracy bandwagon too, eh? heh
  <saffron> figures
  <Jolo> can somebody explain this troll boy thing to me?
  <Jolo> i am quite confused
  <saffron> some player named bomber has been playing, and people think it's me
  <Jolo> oic
  <Jolo> why do they care?
  <saffron> I dunno
  <saffron> it ain't me tho
  *** Mode change "+oooo goob n-x T_Racker Kax" on channel #bolo by Jolo
  <saffron> elitist
  *** Mode change "-o saffron" on channel #bolo by Jolo
  <Jolo> there, now you're special
  <saffron> dictator!
  <saffron> martinet!
  *** Signoff: Big_Ford (Ping timeout: 480 seconds)

i figure he's not gonna say much more on his own, so it's time to stir up
the much a little bit.

  <vert> i concede that it might not be you
  <vert> but
  <vert> if not
  <vert> then at the least
  <vert> you know who it is

jolo figures that he might wanna join in at this point...

  <Jolo> concede nothing
  <Jolo> we have proof laddies

he shies away after that statement, but andrew is really interested now.

  <saffron> why do you say that, vert?
  <vert> well, go ahead and deny that
  <saffron> sure -- I don't know who it is
  <vert> then you are lying
  <saffron> but I want to know why everything thinks it is *me*
  <saffron> why do you say that?
  <vert> because i know things
  <saffron> bah

gotta collect my thoughts and plot the course.  gotta make him acknowledge
the validity of the ip that nix gave on the email...

  <vert> ok...
  <vert> i'll play your game for a bit
  <vert> you checked around to see who bomber is, right?
  <vert> surely you must have
  <saffron> no
  <saffron> I haven't played with him
  <vert> oh....

jolo jumps in again here, but in private.  he's funny like that.

  *Jolo*=> *vert* have you seen nix's email?
  *vert*=> *Jolo* yes

back to business...

  <vert> sure
  <vert> well, that's an odd coincidence
  <saffron> not really, I can only play in the evenings now
  <vert> you have an ip for this "bomber"?
  <saffron> nope
  <vert> <moki> erm... 216.42.79.225 ain't us, Nix.
  <vert> surely you did at one time
  <saffron> yep
  <saffron> didn't have it handy tho

*bam* there it is.  time to poke the fire around a bit more.

  <vert> if you put it in your dns you would have it handy
  <saffron> huh?
  <vert> stop it
  <saffron> I seriously don't know what yer talking about
  <vert> well...
  <vert> ok
  <saffron> what do you mean "put it in our DNS"?

it's getting sick now...  pathetic...  gotta call him on his bluff.
actually, i just have to play nix's hand...

  <vert> nslookup - 216.42.24.71
  <vert> then do...
  <vert> ls ambrosiasw.com > stuff
  <vert> then look at "stuff"
  <vert> then come back and lie to me some more
  <saffron> hold on
  <saffron> > ls
  <saffron> Server:  ambrosiasw.com
  <saffron> Address:  216.42.24.71
  <saffron> *** ambrosiasw.com can't find ls: Non-existent host/domain

a sloppy diversionary tactic at best.  now the bacon...

  <vert> [ambrosiasw.com]
  <vert> $ORIGIN ambrosiasw.com.
  <vert> @                       1H IN A         216.42.24.66
  <vert>                         1H IN A         216.42.24.71
  <vert> azrael                  1H IN A         216.42.79.210
  <vert> www2                    1H IN A         209.83.132.66
  <vert> localhost               1H IN A         127.0.0.1
  <vert> sleipnir                1H IN A         216.42.79.232
  <vert> wraith                  1H IN A         216.42.79.219
  <vert> banshee                 1H IN A         216.42.79.218
  <vert> hyperion                1H IN A         216.42.79.230
  <vert> azrael2                 1H IN A         216.42.79.211
  <vert> azrael3                 1H IN A         216.42.79.212
  <vert> azrael4                 1H IN A         216.42.79.213
  <vert> orpheus                 1H IN A         216.42.79.231
  <Jolo> i love it when you talk DNS
  <vert> erinyes                 1H IN A         216.42.79.214
  <vert> scylla                  1H IN A         216.42.79.220
  <vert> web                     1H IN A         216.42.24.66
  <vert> infidel                 1H IN A         216.42.79.217
  <vert> hermes                  1H IN A         216.42.79.223
  <vert> janus                   1H IN A         216.42.24.66
  <vert>                         1H IN A         216.42.24.71
  <vert> erinyes2                1H IN A         216.42.79.215
  <vert> erinyes3                1H IN A         216.42.79.216
  <vert> heimdall                1H IN A         216.42.79.222
  <vert> odin                    1H IN A         216.42.79.221

still trying to cling on to the "feign ignorance" tactic...

  <saffron> ....?
  <vert> horrible

even worse...

  <saffron> statistics lie

that's about enough for me...  time for closing comments.

  <vert> heh
  <vert> i call your bluff and now you are acting like you don't know
		 how to play poker
  <vert> bah
  <vert> i have work to do
  <vert> g'night

wheeee!!!  but jolo provided the real close to the events.

  <Jolo> voit is angry
  <Jolo> you have angered voit
  <saffron> he's just being silly
  <Jolo> i'm no dns guru but it seems like so are you :)
  <Jolo> why not just admit it and be done with, it was a good prank
  <saffron> you'll never take me alive!

well, i guess that's true enough.

-- 
chris hwang
csh@pobox.com