facebook DNS

[david at davidcoulson.net (David Coulson)]

No, when you do a whois for 'fakebook.com' it will pull any registered 
NS entries containing facebook.com anywhere in the whois db.

Digging a.gtld-servers.net is the best way to find authoritative NS for 
facebook.com, not whois.

Clay Haynes wrote:
> Looks like someone is messing with the domain nameservers.  Possibly a
> domain hijack?
>
> panzer:~ chaynes$ whois facebook.com
>
> Whois Server Version 2.0
>
> Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
> with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
> for detailed information.
>
> FACEBOOK.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
> FACEBOOK.COM.ZZZZZ.DOWNLOAD.MOVIE.ONLINE.ZML2.COM
> FACEBOOK.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
> FACEBOOK.COM
>
> To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the
> of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them
> up
> with "=xxx" to receive a full display for each record.
>
>
>
> - Clay
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maria Iano [mailto:maria at iano.org] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 11:56 AM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: facebook DNS
>
> It looks like facebook is having DNS troubles. The www.facebook.com  
> subdomain is delegated to some servers that are no longer answering.  
> Also apps.facebook.com is a cname to www-college.facebook.com which  
> gets no reply.
>
> Maria
>
>
>