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RE: FBI.GOV forgot to pay their DNS bill?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karyn Ulriksen)
Mon Aug 12 18:38:03 2002
From: Karyn Ulriksen <Karyn@Broadspire.com>
To: "'Sean Donelan'" <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 15:32:54 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Damn that Homeland Security! They've gone too far this time! 8\
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Donelan [mailto:sean@donelan.com]
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 3:26 PM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: FBI.GOV forgot to pay their DNS bill?
I guess the FBI/NIPC can't put out an alert about this one.
Notice the absence of any domain servers
> whois -h whois.nic.gov fbi.gov
% DOTGOV WHOIS Server ready
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI-DOM)
Information Resources Division Washington, DC 20535
Domain Name: FBI.GOV
Status: Active
Domain servers in listed order:
Technical POC, Administrative POC:
Sanders, Shereada L. (SLS1)
(202) 324-9430 (FAX)(202) 324-6720
SSANDERS.ICSU@FBI.GOV
> dig @a.root-servers.net fbi.gov any
; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> @a.root-servers.net fbi.gov any
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 4
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; fbi.gov, type = ANY, class = IN
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
gov. 1D IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
REGISTRAR.NIC.gov. (
2002081201 ; serial
1H ; refresh
15M ; retry
1W ; expiry
1D ) ; minimum
;; Total query time: 15 msec
;; FROM: clifden to SERVER: a.root-servers.net 198.41.0.4
;; WHEN: Mon Aug 12 18:24:40 2002
;; MSG SIZE sent: 25 rcvd: 93
