Oh man thanks for finding this. Those are indeed the servers in question. Earlier in the day when I tried to get some help from internic on this they totally would not do anything for me. Think I am going to enjoy the return call. -Max Max Spaulding Internet Connect, INC. max@inc.net On 14 Aug, Robert Cantrel wrote:

I think it's related to something I noticed last night. It was gone when I checked again around noon today.

; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> . soa @a.root-servers.net ; (1 server found) ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10 ;; flags: qr rd; Ques: 1, Ans: 0, Auth: 2, Addit: 2 ;; QUESTIONS: ;; ., type = SOA, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY RECORDS: . 172800 NS PANIC.WEBTEAM.NET. . 172800 NS TORGO.WEBTEAM.NET.

;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS: PANIC.WEBTEAM.NET. 172800 A 207.67.50.8 TORGO.WEBTEAM.NET. 172800 A 207.67.50.7

Some kind of technical glitch at InterNIC. None of the other root servers displayed this behaviour when I checked.

...

I have an added note. Someone asked me about what domains are being looked up and if it might be something someone registered. I dont believe this to be the case. There are literally hundreds of domains being looked up to many to have had someone register them all. Also many of the domains are actual domains I know to be real such as excite.com. -Max

______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com