Re: MICROSOFT.COM.ARE.GODDAMN.PIGF**KERS

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:22 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 19:07:54 -0400, Jeffrey Walton said:
> > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:02 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 18:50:31 -0400, Jeffrey Walton said:
> > > > This is kind of funny...
> > >
> > > > $ whois microsoft.com
> > >
> > > Yeah.  People get cute when naming the DNS servers to be used by DNS glue
> > > records.  It's been that way for at least a quarter century, I think.
> >
> > $ nslookup
> > > microsoft.com
>
> You're looking at the wrong thing. :)

Thanks. I'm looking up the glue records now and to understand how they
are affecting this...

Its kind of surprising (to me) the tricks are allowed to be played at
all, especially for high profile sites like microsoft.com, google.com
or apple.com.

Jeff
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