FBI.GOV forgot to pay their DNS bill?

Tue Aug 13 01:27:11 UTC 2002

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 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