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.org
Domain 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-2001
I'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