Re: [Ethereal-dev] Wiki.ethereal.com down?

["Jim Young" <sysjhy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Oliver,

>>> olivier.jacques@xxxxxx 05/05/06 10:20 AM >>>
> when trying to reach the wiki, I get: 
> "This domain name expired on 04/29/2006 and is pending renewal or
> deletion."
>  
> Ouch.

It looks like it is more than just the Wiki site.  I can't even see the 
Ethereal's home page at:

  http://www.ethereal.com

I'm redirected to Network Solution's "Web Page Under Construction".

A whois for "ethereal.com" returned the following.  Note the Date/Time in
the "Database last updated" record...

> Registrant:
> Ethereal
>    15536 College Boulevard
>    Lenexa, KS 66219
>    US
> 
>    Domain Name: ETHEREAL.COM
> 
>    Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
>       Network Integration Services, Inc.		noc@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>       11374 Strang Line Rd.
>       Lenexa, KS 66215
>       US
>       (913) 339-2300 fax: (913) 339-2357
> 
>    Record expires on 29-Apr-2012.
>    Record created on 28-Apr-1994.


>    Database last updated on 6-May-2006 18:20:10 EDT.
> 
>    Domain servers in listed order:
> 
>    NS1.NETISINC.NET             65.208.228.199
>    NS2.NETISINC.NET             65.208.229.20

FYI:  Earlier this week (May 3rd) I received my daily ISS "XFTAS Daily Threat 
Assessment" report that included a paragraph that stated: "... the Internet 
Storm Center (ISC) has posted a report of a DNS cache poisoning incident."  
ISS summarized the ISC report as "Users of a particular company found 
that when they attempted to access any Web site, a page would be returned 
indicating that the domain was for sale."

The ISC posting is available in the "Handler's Diary May 2nd 2006".  See:

  http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1305

I sure hope that this is an innocent administrative oversight that can be
easily corrected and not something more sinister.

Best regards,

Jim Young