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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!manuel.anu.edu.au!coombs!avalon
  2. From: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.irc
  4. Subject: Re: patriot.mit.edu (vanity server alert)
  5. Date: 23 Dec 92 02:59:28 GMT
  6. Organization: Australian National University
  7. Lines: 57
  8. Message-ID: <avalon.725079568@coombs>
  9. References: <1992Dec11.194808.26570@njitgw.njit.edu>     <1992Dec14.103032.563@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>     <1992Dec14.205357.27392@athena.mit.edu>     <1992Dec15.014934.16284@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> <9212151412.AA02280@hrt213.brooks.af.mil>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.2
  11.  
  12. tjm@hrt213.brooks.af.mil (Tim Miller) writes:
  13.  
  14. >On 15 Dec 92 01:49:34 GMT, asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...) said:
  15.  
  16. > > It's fake to me.  host patriot doesn't give me anything a nic.ddn.mil whois
  17. > > of patriot doesn't help either  I don't care what kind of stupid justification
  18. > > you use.  All you are doing is inviting other people do to the same, soon the
  19. > > boundaries are stretched and then who knows what.  You KNOW you're faking
  20. > > your host.  Why do you have to do it?  Is there any particular reason?
  21. > > No, I don't think so. 
  22.  
  23. >    Done a second ago in another window:
  24.  
  25. >Floyd :tjm % nslookup 
  26. >Default Server:  rnd.brooks.af.mil
  27. >Address:  140.140.4.2
  28.  
  29. >> patriot.mit.edu
  30. >Server:  rnd.brooks.af.mil
  31. >Address:  140.140.4.2
  32.  
  33. >Name:    patriot.mit.edu
  34. >Address:  18.92.0.10
  35.  
  36. Umm, thats cheating.
  37.  
  38. The point is being made about "patriot" NOT "patriot.mit.edu" which is
  39. what people want it to be.
  40.  
  41. (~ ) nslookup
  42. Default Server:  anu.anu.edu.au
  43. Address:  130.56.4.1
  44.  
  45. > server ns.nic.ddn.mil.
  46. Default Server:  ns.nic.ddn.mil
  47. Address:  192.112.36.4
  48.  
  49. > set nodef
  50. > patriot
  51. Server:  ns.nic.ddn.mil
  52. Address:  192.112.36.4
  53.  
  54. *** ns.nic.ddn.mil can't find patriot: Non-existent domain
  55. > server nic.ddn.mil 
  56. Default Server:  nic.ddn.mil
  57. Address:  192.112.36.5
  58.  
  59. > patriot
  60. Server:  nic.ddn.mil
  61. Address:  192.112.36.5
  62.  
  63. *** nic.ddn.mil can't find patriot: Non-existent domain
  64.  
  65. avalon
  66.  
  67. Say no to lame unix machines
  68.