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The groundwork was laid for what was to become PTTLink on 29 December 2020 after the unannounced and uncoordinated actions taken by the AllStarLink Board of Directors. At approximately 5:00 pm Pacific (0100 UTC, 30 December), the admin committee became aware of multiple catastrophic system outages. Attempts to login to systems to remediate were presented with new IP addresses and messages that the host keys were unknown. Further investigation revealed that the DNS zone record was updated at the registrar for allstarlink.org moving it from the long time home of caustic-sea.allstarlink.org to Cloudflare. In addition, an investigation into the IP addresses being presented revealed that they belonged to Google. (For more information on the AllStarLink admin committee visit: <nowiki>https://wiki.allstarlink.org/wiki/Admin_Committee</nowiki>). Since the admin team was not previously granted access to the DNS control panel, it was unknown at this time if this was the board, or a bad actor.<br/>
The groundwork was laid for what was to become PTTLink on 29 December 2020 after the unannounced and uncoordinated actions taken by the AllStarLink Board of Directors. At approximately 5:00 pm Pacific (0100 UTC, 30 December), the admin committee became aware of multiple catastrophic system outages. Attempts to login to systems to remediate were presented with new IP addresses and messages that the host keys were unknown. Further investigation revealed that the DNS zone record was updated at the registrar for allstarlink.org moving it from the long time home of caustic-sea.allstarlink.org to Cloudflare. In addition, an investigation into the IP addresses being presented revealed that they belonged to Google. (For more information on the AllStarLink admin committee visit: https://wiki.allstarlink.org/wiki/Admin_Committee<ref>https://wiki.allstarlink.org/wiki/Admin_Committee</ref>). Since the admin team was not previously granted access to the DNS control panel, it was unknown at this time if this was the board, or a bad actor.<br/>
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The lead system administrator, Stacy Olivas (KG7QIN) immediately posted to the AllStarLink Slack #operations channel upon notification of the outages asking if anyone was messing with DNS to which he received no replies. At that time all members of the AllStarLink Board of Directors were present or available on Slack as well as those working on their behalf and are believed to have precipitated the outage.<br/>
The lead system administrator, Stacy Olivas (KG7QIN) immediately posted to the AllStarLink Slack #operations channel upon notification of the outages asking if anyone was messing with DNS to which he received no replies. At that time all members of the AllStarLink Board of Directors were present or available on Slack as well as those working on their behalf and are believed to have precipitated the outage.<br/>
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The shocking and unprecedented actions taken and continue to be taken by the AllStarLink Board of Directors which include (but are not limited to):
The shocking and unprecedented actions taken and continue to be taken by the AllStarLink Board of Directors which include (but are not limited to):
<blockquote>i. changing of DNS without advance notice, coordination or explanation to the admin and development team causing an outage</blockquote>
<blockquote>I. changing of DNS without advance notice, coordination or explanation to the admin and development team causing an outage</blockquote>
<blockquote>ii. termination of the AllStarLink Slack accounts for several members of the development and admin team without notice or explanation</blockquote>
<blockquote>II. termination of the AllStarLink Slack accounts for several members of the development and admin team without notice or explanation</blockquote>
<blockquote>iii. revocation of node numbers and user access of members without notice or explanation</blockquote>
<blockquote>III. revocation of node numbers and user access of members without notice or explanation</blockquote>
<blockquote>iv. continued sending of unsolicited email to users registered with PTTLink.</blockquote>
<blockquote>IV. continued sending of unsolicited email to users registered with PTTLink.</blockquote>
This is considered by the undersigned members of the admin committee to be indicative of poor judgment and a lack of foresight by the AllStarLink Board.<br/>
This is considered by the undersigned members of the admin committee to be indicative of poor judgment and a lack of foresight by the AllStarLink Board.
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There have been several posts made alleging theft of data from the old AllStarLink system. No such actions have been taken by the admin committee and we repudiate these meritless allegations. As previously stated, due to the action of the AllStarLink Board of Directors, all existing data and systems (to include user data) were abandoned in place. In addition, and contrary to statements published by the AllStarLink Board, all servers under control of the admin committee have and shall remain housed in secure commercial data centers. Additionally, we have received commitments from donors of these resources that PTTLink may continue to utilize them. These resources, which were formerly donated to keeping the AllStarLInk Network running for the benefit of the thousands of users worldwide, will continue to be available and keeping the PTTLink systems running in the same manner. The safeguarding of data has been and always will be of the utmost importance to the admin committee and PTTLink team.<br/>
There have been several posts made alleging theft of data from the old AllStarLink system. No such actions have been taken by the admin committee and we repudiate these meritless allegations. As previously stated, due to the action of the AllStarLink Board of Directors, all existing data and systems (to include user data) were abandoned in place. In addition, and contrary to statements published by the AllStarLink Board, all servers under control of the admin committee have and shall remain housed in secure commercial data centers. Additionally, we have received commitments from donors of these resources that PTTLink may continue to utilize them. These resources, which were formerly donated to keeping the AllStarLInk Network running for the benefit of the thousands of users worldwide, will continue to be available and keeping the PTTLink systems running in the same manner. The safeguarding of data has been and always will be of the utmost importance to the admin committee and PTTLink team.<br/>
User management and registration portal: https://www.pttlink.org<ref>https://www.pttlink.org</ref><br/>
User management and registration portal: https://www.pttlink.org<ref>https://www.pttlink.org</ref><br/>
Wiki: https://wiki.pttlink.org<ref>https://wiki.pttlink.org</ref> <br/>
Wiki: https://wiki.pttlink.org<ref>https://wiki.pttlink.org</ref> <br/>
Statistics server: http://stats.pttlink.org<ref>https://stats.pttlink.org</ref><br/>
Statistics server: http://stats.pttlink.org<ref>http://stats.pttlink.org</ref><br/>
System status dashboard: https://grafana.pttlink.org<ref>https://grafana.pttlink.org</ref><br/>
System status dashboard: https://grafana.pttlink.org<ref>https://grafana.pttlink.org</ref><br/>
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==External Links==
==External Links==
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