From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 28 04:37:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DABF16A420 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:37:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98E5243D45 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:37:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id k1S4beu90941; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:37:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: , "FreeBSD Questions" Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:37:39 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 In-Reply-To: <440248D6.90900@meijome.net> Importance: Normal Cc: Subject: RE: (Semi-OT) Understanding whois info.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:37:46 -0000 >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Norberto >Meijome >Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 4:33 PM >To: FreeBSD Questions >Subject: (Semi-OT) Understanding whois info.... > > >I run a whois microsoft.com and I got back the interesting info >shown below. > >I tried from another of my FBSD boxes located half the world away and >got the same result. Neither internic.net > nor who.godaddy.com show this >'interesting' data, they show the correct one. >The data seems to be coming from Verisign's whois servers.... > Someone's figured out how to upload bogus data to a registrar's whois server that they must have broken into. Some of the other registrars are picking it up, most aren't. Ted