Fun_People Archive
12 Jul
ITCSQOTD - Incorrect technical claim signature quote of the day

Date: Tue, 12 Jul 94 18:27:21 PDT
To: Fun_People
Subject: ITCSQOTD - Incorrect technical claim signature quote of the day

[It's hard to improve on the classic:
	"On the internet, no one knows you're a dog."
 but some of the attempts do have their own charm... -psl]

Forwarded-by: bostic@vangogh.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Forwarded-by: Names changed to protect the (relatively) innocent
From: Names changed to protect the, ah, guilty

	J. Allard                                 jallard@microsoft.com
	Program Manager of TCP/IP Technologies    work: (206)882-8080
	Microsoft Corporation                     home: (206)860-8862
	  "On the Internet, nobody knows you're running Windows NT"

to which I say "nonsense" - anybody who has access to a tool that dumps
DNS records can know that Microsoft is:

	weaver% /usr/etc/nslookup
	Default Server:  weaver-e0.netapp.com
	Address:  192.9.200.45
	Aliases:  weaver.netapp.com

	> set type=any
	> set domain=/dev/null
	> www.microsoft.com
	Server:  weaver-e0.netapp.com
	Address:  192.9.200.45
	Aliases:  weaver.netapp.com

	Non-authoritative answer:
	www.microsoft.com       inet address = 131.107.1.210
	Authoritative answers can be found from:
	ATBD.MICROSOFT.COM      inet address = 131.107.1.7
	DNS1.NWNET.NET  inet address = 192.220.250.1
	DNS2.NWNET.NET  inet address = 192.220.251.1
	> server atbd.microsoft.com
	Default Server:  atbd.microsoft.com
	Address:  131.107.1.7

	> www.microsoft.com
	Server:  atbd.microsoft.com
	Address:  131.107.1.7

	www.microsoft.com       inet address = 131.107.1.210
	www.microsoft.com       MikeMas, JAllard, or DavidTr
	www.microsoft.com       CPU=Intel 486   OS=Windows/NT 3.5
	www.microsoft.com       preference = 10, mail exchanger =
	   netmail.microsoft.com
	netmail.microsoft.com   inet address = 131.107.1.3

© 1994 Peter Langston