On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Dan West wrote: > Well, if I don't know anything else at least I know > that you're the most friendly, helpful and informative > guy I've ever met....*grin* Some days I am...your just lucky you caught me on one.. > Seriously though, no flamebait here but why do I see > that funny junk when I run whois on microsoft.com and > aol.com? Whois doesn't interact with DNS at all? I > just want to be sure. The whois database is the public version of the real database which the root zone files are extracted. It has no actual bearing on the zones itself. Like any database, you query for data. whois is the frontend to a generic query of the whois database. The way that query is designed, it by default brings up all the hostnames that resemeble the domain name. This is what I meant by a loose query, as opposed to one that just brings up exactly what you are querying and nothing else. All of those hostnames are at other domains that have nothing to do with microsoft.com. Just because I name my nameserver microsoft.sucks.tigerteam.net doesn't mean that its going to interfere with microsoft's DNS in any way. It just means that my nameserver is named microsoft.sucks.tigerteam.net. All that matters is the second level domain, which in my example, would be tigerteam.net. I can give my machines any hostnames I choose and they just happen to appear when similar to a second level domain name. andy _________________________________ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
