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> Forwarded message from "Lewis E. Wolfgang" <[email protected]> > > Something is definitely rotten here. > > Whois reports: > > Server Name: SLASHDOT.ORG.SUCKS.COMPARED.TO.JIMPHILLIPS.ORG > IP Address: 24.240.60.16 > Registrar: TUCOWS, INC. > Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net > Referral URL: http://www.opensrs.org > > Domain Name: SLASHDOT.ORG > Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC. > Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com > Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com > Name Server: NS1.ANDOVER.NET > Name Server: NS2.ANDOVER.NET > Updated Date: 13-jun-2001 > > I've never seen whois report two registrars, especially one that says > "SLASHDOT.ORG.SUCKS.COMPARED.TO.JIMPHILLIPS.ORG" Then you haven't been reading here for very long. Every couple of months, someone does a query like this and posts the results thinking they've found something signifigant. They haven't. What they have found is that someone: (1) Registered JIMPHILLIPS.ORG, (2) Created a Name Server in the JIMPHILLIPS.ORG domain, (3) Decided to name that server: "SLASHDOT.ORG.SUCKS.COMPARED.TO.JIMPHILLIPS.ORG" For more fun, try "whois -h whois.internic.net microsoft.com". > I'd guess that some cracker broke something somewhere? Maybe a > DNS crack? Maybe Andover went bankrupt and pulled the plug > on us? Maybe Micro$oft is behind this? Well, somthign might well be going on. But it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that someone registered a name server whose name comtains the string "SLASHDOT.ORG". Merit, for example, could create a new nameserver and call it: SLASHDOT.ORG.REALLY.SUCKS.MERIT.EDU and then three things would show up with you did a whois on slashdot.org. -- Brett
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