This from the SuSE Linux mail list may help :-)
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" I also noticed that traceroutes to both slashdot and freshmeat went through 64.14.80.154, then stopped at that point. 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$oft is behind this? It sort of illustrates the hazards of having all the open-source eggs on one server farm.... Regards, Lew Wolfgang On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, ZephyrQ wrote:
I've been trying all day to get my /. fix, as well as Freshmeat!
Did I miss an announcement? Or is there something else going on?
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 05:06:42PM -0800, Dee McKinney wrote:
This from the SuSE Linux mail list may help :-)
Forwarded message from "Lewis E. Wolfgang" <wolfgang@nosc.mil>
Something is definitely rotten here.
Yes, the smell of a rotten old thread: http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2000-10/msg00254.html
Whois reports:
Server Name: SLASHDOT.ORG.SUCKS.COMPARED.TO.JIMPHILLIPS.ORG IP Address: 24.240.60.16 Registrar: TUCOWS, INC. Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net Referral URL: http://www.opensrs.org
Domain Name: SLASHDOT.ORG Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC. Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com Name Server: NS1.ANDOVER.NET Name Server: NS2.ANDOVER.NET Updated Date: 13-jun-2001
I've never seen whois report two registrars, especially one that says "SLASHDOT.ORG.SUCKS.COMPARED.TO.JIMPHILLIPS.ORG"
I also noticed that traceroutes to both slashdot and freshmeat went through 64.14.80.154, then stopped at that point.
I'd guess that some cracker broke something somewhere? Maybe a DNS crack? Maybe Andover went bankrupt and pulled the plug on us? Maybe Micro$oft is behind this?
Oh hush the fuck up and cut the conspiracy crap.
It sort of illustrates the hazards of having all the open-source eggs on one server farm....
Regards, Lew Wolfgang
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, ZephyrQ wrote:
I've been trying all day to get my /. fix, as well as Freshmeat!
Did I miss an announcement? Or is there something else going on?
Slashdot fix...good lord. -- Omachonu Ogali missnglnk@informationwave.net http://www.informationwave.net
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Omachonu Ogali wrote:
Yes, the smell of a rotten old thread: http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2000-10/msg00254.html
... except that people always forget that any automated wrapper for whois can be broken by this behaviour if left incorrectly parsed (that thread above arose from exactly such a problem) and it's a point largely forgotten in the "you are dumb" flames. j
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
On Today, Dee McKinney wrote:
Something is definitely rotten here.
NOT!
Whois reports:
Server Name: SLASHDOT.ORG.SUCKS.COMPARED.TO.JIMPHILLIPS.ORG IP Address: 24.240.60.16 Registrar: TUCOWS, INC.
Domain Name: SLASHDOT.ORG Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
I've never seen whois report two registrars, especially one that says "SLASHDOT.ORG.SUCKS.COMPARED.TO.JIMPHILLIPS.ORG"
Two separate domains. Slashdot.org and jimphillips.org. I'd wager you did a WHOIS on slashdot.org and got ALL the domains *AND* servers that mention slashdot.org. It's a freedom of expression thing. lol. More WHOIS games: MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.NO.LINUXCLUE.COM MICROSOFT.COM.HACKED.BY.HACKSWARE.COM MICROSOFT.COM.FILLS.ME.WITH.BELLIGERENCE.NET MICROSOFT.COM.CODERS.SHOULD.DUMP.WINDOWS.AND.CODE.FOR.THE.MORE.PRACTICALMAC.COM MICROSOFT.COM.CANNOT.HACKUNIX.ORG MICROSOFT.COM.AINT.WORTH.SHIT.KLUGE.ORG Linux: LINUX.COM.NEEDS.TO.RUN.FREEBSD.LIKE.HCCTRC.COM LINUX.COM.IS.KINDA.COOL.BUT.RUN.FREEBSD.LIKE.JIMPHILLIPS.ORG LINUX.COM.ALONETRIO.WAS.HERE.WITH.ALTAVISTWAP.COM -Gordo -------------------------------------------------- Gordon Ewasiuk, Sun Firefighter, Winstar VHC O: 703.889.4035 C: 703.731.4828 IM: wanjunkie The REAL office number is here-----> 703.893.4901 Have you had your Solaris today? -------------------------------------------------- 9:10pm up 12:59, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.08
The number of registrars queried depends upon your whois implementation. These various 'blah sucks' things in whois are old news. My guess is that they're having some sort of network infrastructure difficulty (router, switch, load-balancer) or a disk farm outage or somesuch. Occam's Razor. Dee McKinney wrote:
This from the SuSE Linux mail list may help :-)
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"
I also noticed that traceroutes to both slashdot and freshmeat went through 64.14.80.154, then stopped at that point.
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?
It sort of illustrates the hazards of having all the open-source eggs on one server farm....
Regards, Lew Wolfgang
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, ZephyrQ wrote:
I've been trying all day to get my /. fix, as well as Freshmeat!
Did I miss an announcement? Or is there something else going on?
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