Forwarded message from "Lewis E. Wolfgang" <wolfgang@nosc.mil>
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.orgDomain 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-2001I'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