Comments on: Google hacked? http://www.arjunprabhu.com/blog/archives/2005/05/08/google-hacked/ A blog about the happenings around me! - arjun prabhu Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:31:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: PJ http://www.arjunprabhu.com/blog/archives/2005/05/08/google-hacked/comment-page-1/#comment-1672 PJ Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:31:54 +0000 http://www.arjunprabhu.com/blog/archives/2005/05/08/google-hacked/#comment-1672 This nothing to do with google getting screwed. This is happening cause internic servers is making the following query when you ask for whois of google.com google.com.* Thus any cns created like google.com.i.dont.own.it.abc.com where abc.com is your domain name. So if this name server has been registered by you then when anyone queries internic for google.com then your cns will also be displayed. Regards, PJ This nothing to do with google getting screwed.

This is happening cause internic servers is making the following query when you ask for whois of google.com

google.com.*

Thus any cns created like

google.com.i.dont.own.it.abc.com

where abc.com is your domain name. So if this name server has been registered by you then when anyone queries internic for google.com then your cns will also be displayed.

Regards,

PJ

]]> By: Fred Foobar http://www.arjunprabhu.com/blog/archives/2005/05/08/google-hacked/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Fred Foobar Sun, 08 May 2005 05:47:32 +0000 http://www.arjunprabhu.com/blog/archives/2005/05/08/google-hacked/#comment-75 No problem! :-) Something definitely went very wrong for Google, but I'm inclined to believe their explanation that it was a DNS screwup. I saw the site go down, but just got the normal browser errors for a DNS failure, rather than seeing anything that looked like a deliberate hijacking. No problem! :-)

Something definitely went very wrong for Google, but I’m inclined to believe their explanation that it was a DNS screwup. I saw the site go down, but just got the normal browser errors for a DNS failure, rather than seeing anything that looked like a deliberate hijacking.

]]> By: Arjun http://www.arjunprabhu.com/blog/archives/2005/05/08/google-hacked/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Arjun Sun, 08 May 2005 05:20:52 +0000 http://www.arjunprabhu.com/blog/archives/2005/05/08/google-hacked/#comment-74 Thanks for the inputs fred! I have put the updates accordingly. Thanks for the inputs fred! I have put the updates accordingly.

]]> By: Fred Foobar http://www.arjunprabhu.com/blog/archives/2005/05/08/google-hacked/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Fred Foobar Sun, 08 May 2005 05:04:24 +0000 http://www.arjunprabhu.com/blog/archives/2005/05/08/google-hacked/#comment-73 The whois output has nothing to do with a 'hack'. The owners of gulli.com and seczy.com have just created joke subdomain names and registered them as name servers, which will mean they show up in the whois output. Some whois services will display all matches for the search string, not just the one you thought you were searching for. Go to http://www.internic.net/whois.html and do a name server whois search and check. This joke has also been played with a lot of other big domain names, including microsoft.com and yahoo.com. It's a trick that's been around for years. The whois output has nothing to do with a ‘hack’. The owners of gulli.com and seczy.com have just created joke subdomain names and registered them as name servers, which will mean they show up in the whois output. Some whois services will display all matches for the search string, not just the one you thought you were searching for.

Go to http://www.internic.net/whois.html and do a name server whois search and check.

This joke has also been played with a lot of other big domain names, including microsoft.com and yahoo.com. It’s a trick that’s been around for years.

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