whoooaa there, cowboy..!! I would say it certainly has S/THING to do with S/THING...C'mon!! I wasn't doing a whois on microsoft.blah.blah.whatever. I was running whois on "microsoft.com". Some DNS redirection at the very least was happening. To say it "has nothing to do with anything" is just plain absurd. --- Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 > ===== Don't forget to cross your digits... Dan West -- CCNA, CCNP (in progress) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ _________________________________ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
