On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Dan West wrote: > Hmmm...doesn't sound like quite the whole picture. How > would that explain what happened when you ran a > "whois" on microsoft.com????? Did anyone else see > that?!?! It was pretty funny. -- about 15 lines of > hacker orgs and comments about MS. That has nothing to do with anything. The query used to search the whois database is fairly loose and brings up any hostname that has the word microsoft in it. aol.com does the same thing. So if I registred a DNS server called microsoft.suck.tigerteam.net it would show up also. > A more frightening possibility....did someone hack the > DNS root servers?? No. andy _________________________________ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

