From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 27 01:04:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF81616A420 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 01:04:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69B5A43D73 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 01:04:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k1R13TKl077187; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:03:50 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <44024FD6.3030506@daleco.biz> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:03:18 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd@meijome.net References: <440248D6.90900@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <440248D6.90900@meijome.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: (Semi-OT) Understanding whois info.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 01:04:45 -0000 Norberto Meijome wrote: >I run a whois microsoft.com and I got back the interesting info shown below. > >I tried from another of my FBSD boxes located half the world away and >got the same result. Neither internic.net nor who.godaddy.com show this >'interesting' data, they show the correct one. >The data seems to be coming from Verisign's whois servers.... > >:) > >--- >Whois Server Version 1.3 > >Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered >with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net >for detailed information. > >MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZ.IS.0WNED.AND.HAX0RED.BY.SUB7.NET >MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.LIVE.FOREVER.BECOUSE.UNIXSUCKS.COM >MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.BE.SLAPPED.IN.THE.FACE.BY.MY.BLUE.VEINED.SPANNER.NET >MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.BE.BEATEN.WITH.MY.SPANNER.NET >MICROSOFT.COM.WAREZ.AT.TOPLIST.GULLI.COM > > > > >what gives? > >B > > These are just joke entries ... the owners of the above 2nd level domains registered DNS servers with the names shown, and some "whois" services search for the entire string instead of just the "end of it" ... It's been around a long time---also, you're not the only person to mention it. See: http://www.arjunprabhu.com/blog/archives/2005/05/08/google-hacked/ I tried to register "google.com.is.preferred.by.our.users.at.daleco.biz" quite some time ago, but apparently my registrar has machinery in place to catch that, or else I just didn't do it right .... Kevin Kinsey -- Furbling, v.: Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank even when you are the only person in line. -- Rich Hall, Sniglets