[plug] interesting...

[Paul Dean]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Gavin Rogers wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Jason Belcher wrote:
> 
> > Am I the only one who finds it interesting that
> > http://www.windows2000test.com/ which was previously used by Microsoft
> > as a hacking challenge for Windows 2000 and Windows XP, currently has a
> > default Debian/Apache installation page on it?
> 
> Wierd.
> 
> All I get is a 'connection refused' error message...
> 
> Whois says the domain is still registered to Microsoft though, so the
> opportunity for Linux folk to poke fun at Microsoft with that domain
> aren't yet available to us :-)
> 
> ---
> Gavin Rogers                    |    Amateur radio station VK6HGR
> grogers at vk6hgr.echidna.id.au    |    http://vk6hgr.echidna.id.au/
> 
Bizareeee http://www.windows2000test.com/ resloves to testwindowsxp.net
(0.0.0.0), which routes back to 127.0.0.1 for me....
Dig returns;
dig  testwindowsxp.net          

; <<>> DiG 9.1.0 <<>> testwindowsxp.net
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 9378
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;testwindowsxp.net.             IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
testwindowsxp.net.      3331    IN      A       0.0.0.0

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
testwindowsxp.net.      172530  IN      NS      NS2.WINISP.net.
testwindowsxp.net.      172530  IN      NS      NS1.WINISP.net.

Also...
NS2.WINISP.net.         3600    IN      A       207.46.170.3
NS1.WINISP.net.         3556    IN      A       207.46.170.2

Interesting about the hops though...
traceroute to NS1.WINISP.net (207.46.170.2)...
19  microsoftoc48-gw.customer.alter.net (157.130.184.26)  533.371 ms
521.370 ms  408.963 ms
20  iuscb11ixc7502-fe-1-0-0.msft.net (207.46.129.136)  387.467 ms
511.703 ms  385.718 ms
21  iusd27nt5c7201-a-1-0-1.msft.net (207.46.168.36)  516.531 ms  508.068
ms  490.200 ms
22  * * *
23  207.46.171.2 (207.46.171.2)  471.835 ms  380.915 ms  372.118 ms
24  207.46.170.2 (207.46.170.2)  410.965 ms  394.407 ms  397.712 ms

mmmmmmm
more to think about...


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Paul...

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