This looks like some cute host registration trickery on the part of terrorists.net. I'm amused, and sorry I didn't think of this myself. Jay Stewart Internet Network Engineer Olympia Networking Services - "The Northwest's Premier ISP" A wholly owned subsidiary of Advanced TelCom Group, Inc. -=-=-=-=-
whois 170.1.75.143
[disclaimer pablum removed] Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.IS.SECRETLY.RUN.BY.ILLUMINATI.TERRORISTS.NET IP Address: 170.1.75.143 Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC. Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com Referral URL: www.networksolutions.com [snip] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Goodall" <joshua@roughtrade.net> To: <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 12:27 PM Subject: whois breakage $ whois -h whois.internic.net microsoft.com Whois Server Version 1.3 Domain names in the .com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. MICROSOFT.COM.IS.SECRETLY.RUN.BY.ILLUMINATI.TERRORISTS.NET MICROSOFT.COM Enough said. Similar for apple.com. The web-based whois client at nsiregistry.com is giving correct results, as are the gtld-servers, as does -h networksolutions.com FreeBSD and at least one release of Linux I've tested query whois.internic.net by default. If anyone is using automated whois in production (very likely), check your results! J