[50880] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FBI.GOV forgot to pay their DNS bill?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (blitz)
Mon Aug 12 21:29:27 2002
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 21:27:11 -0400
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
From: blitz <blitz@macronet.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0208121822400.27145-100000@clifden.donelan.c
om>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
This is hilarious.....reminds me of a similar prob they had at FCC.
At 18:26 8/12/02 -0400, you wrote:
>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
