> Date: 2005-04-19 02:11
> From: Doug Royer <Doug@xxxxxxxxx>
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> If I ping an invalid host name everything points to:
>
> host152.theplanet.com (216.234.246.152)
>
> However only from some subnets on the internet
> and only some of the time.
>
> Is this on purpose ?? Is someone getting ready to do a
> DNS catch all again like (whoever it was) a few months ago ?
Unless there was a recent incident, I think you mean a year and a
half ago. See
SSAC Report: Redirection in the Com and Net Domains,
A Report From the ICANN Security and Stability
Advisory Committee (SSAC), 9 July 2004
http://secsac.icann.org/
> Its really odd: foo.dom.com exists and dom.com does not
> exist as a host name. Yet when I ping dom.com it points to
> and pings the above IP.
I'm not seeing that here:
# nslookup -type=any dom.com
Server: 192.168.1.1
Address: 192.168.1.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
dom.com nameserver = ns2.dom.com.
dom.com nameserver = ns1.dom.com.
Authoritative answers can be found from:
dom.com nameserver = ns1.dom.com.
dom.com nameserver = ns2.dom.com.
# nslookup -type=any dom.com ns1.dom.com
Server: ns1.dom.com
Address: 158.106.50.124#53
dom.com mail exchanger = 10 innm02.dom.com.
dom.com mail exchanger = 10 pghm02.dom.com.
dom.com mail exchanger = 10 innm01.dom.com.
dom.com mail exchanger = 10 pghm01.dom.com.
Name: dom.com
Address: 158.106.49.17
dom.com nameserver = ns1.dom.com.
dom.com nameserver = ns2.dom.com.
dom.com
origin = ns1.dom.com
mail addr = Postmaster.eaoweb.dom.com
serial = 2005041305
refresh = 10800
retry = 3600
expire = 604800
minimum = 86400
# whois dom.com
Whois Server Version 1.3
Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
Domain Name: DOM.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: NS1.DOM.COM
Name Server: NS2.DOM.COM
Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
Updated Date: 20-oct-2004
Creation Date: 22-jul-1998
Expiration Date: 21-jul-2007
>>> Last update of whois database: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:35:25 EDT <<<
[...]
Registrant:
Dominion Resources Services Inc. (DOM34-DOM)
P.O. Box 26532
Richmond, VA 23261
US
Domain Name: DOM.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Leigh, James (28863335I) net_master@xxxxxxx
Dominion Resources Services Inc.
P. O. Box 26666
Richmond, VA 23261
US
(804) 771-4636 fax: (804) 273-2181
Record expires on 21-Jul-2007.
Record created on 22-Jul-1998.
Database last updated on 19-Apr-2005 12:46:32 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.DOM.COM 158.106.50.124
NS2.DOM.COM 158.106.45.7
Perhaps there are some bogus and/or stale DNS cache entries (positive
and negative).
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