Re: Whois acting funny in FreeBSD

["Rev. Kronovohr" <kronovohr () finalaeon net>]

this is a common occurrance...all one must do is register a nameserver
with the "target" domain as the beginning of the subdomain. Do a WHOIS
on microsoft.com and you'll see what I mean.

Several companies are now doing this to their competition

On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 12:42, Chris McGinnis wrote:
> Today I've noticed something weird on all my FreeBSD boxes.  When I whois 
> domains like msn.com, microsoft.com, aol.com and others I get stuff like:
>
> $ whois 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
>
> 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.
>
> -Chris
>
>
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