FBI.GOV forgot to pay their DNS bill?
Sean Donelan
sean at donelan.com
Mon Aug 12 22:26:24 UTC 2002
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 at 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
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