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Re: Whois acting funny in FreeBSD
From: petard <petard () freeshell org>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 19:40:49 +0000
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:42:55PM -0600, Chris McGinnis wrote:
My linux boxes seem to work fine. When I query a specific whois server such as whois.networksolutions.com it works fine also. Is anyone else getting anything like this? I'm thinking maybe the default whois server that the whois program queries has been compromised? I'm not sure what the default whois server is.
according to the man page on my openbsd box: By default whois constructs the name of a whois server to use from the top-level domain (TLD) of the supplied (single)argu- ment, and appending ".whois-servers.net". This effectively allows a suitable whois server to be selected automatically for a large number of TLDs. $ /usr/sbin/host com.whois-servers.net com.whois-servers.net is an alias for whois.verisign-grs.com. whois.verisign-grs.com has address 198.41.3.54 $ whois -h whois.verisign-grs.com msn.com 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. MSN.COM.TW MSN.COM.SUCKS.FIND.CRACKZ.WITH.SEARCH.GULLI.COM MSN.COM Looks like someone's having fun with verisign. regards, petard _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
Current thread:
- Whois acting funny in FreeBSD Chris McGinnis (Dec 30)
- Re: Whois acting funny in FreeBSD Randal L. Schwartz (Dec 30)
- Re: Whois acting funny in FreeBSD petard (Dec 30)
- Re: Whois acting funny in FreeBSD Rev. Kronovohr (Dec 30)
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- RE: Whois acting funny in FreeBSD Bassett, Mark (Dec 30)
- Re: Whois acting funny in FreeBSD Randal L. Schwartz (Dec 30)
- RE: Whois acting funny in FreeBSD Harry Hoffman (Dec 30)
- RE: Whois acting funny in FreeBSD Bassett, Mark (Dec 30)
- RE: Whois acting funny in FreeBSD Bassett, Mark (Dec 30)
- Re: Whois acting funny in FreeBSD Damian Gerow (Dec 30)