[AusNOG] microsoft.com whois

[Matthew VK3EVL]

putting an = in doesn't change the results I see but now i understand 
what is going on at least :)

On 26/11/2014 1:40 PM, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
> Yeah, unless you put an = before whatever you want to show, actually 
> does a wildcard match.  usually there's only one result, so the whois 
> server returns that result.  If it returns multiple results, it 
> returns a list, and you need to specifically query with = to get the 
> result you want.
>
> WHOIS contains both domain names, AND nameserver records. So adding 
> something to the 'microsoft.com <http://microsoft.com>' whois is as 
> simple as adding a child nameserver to your domain. :)
>
> On 26 November 2014 at 13:38, Mehmet Akcin <mehmet at akcin.net 
> <mailto:mehmet at akcin.net>> wrote:
>
>     what are we exactly looking here? I am assuming this is about all
>     other subdomains that correlate with microsoft.com
>     <http://microsoft.com> and not about microsoft.com
>     <http://microsoft.com> itself right?
>
>     Mehmet
>
>>     On Nov 25, 2014, at 6:32 PM, Damien Gardner Jnr
>>     <rendrag at rendrag.net <mailto:rendrag at rendrag.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hahah, I just put one back for LOL's ;)
>>
>>     On 26 November 2014 at 13:32, Andrew Jones <aj at jonesy.com.au
>>     <mailto:aj at jonesy.com.au>> wrote:
>>
>>         Are you sure? :-P
>>
>>         MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.LOLLERSKATES.RENDRAG.NET
>>         <http://microsoft.com.zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.lollerskates.rendrag.net/>
>>
>>         On 26.11.2014 13:25, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
>>
>>             Lol yeah - I had removed all my old entries probably 10
>>             years ago!
>>
>>             On 26 November 2014 at 13:23, Scott Howard
>>             <scott at doc.net.au <mailto:scott at doc.net.au>> wrote:
>>
>>                 Hmm.. my calendar must be wrong - it doesn't say 1993.
>>
>>                 This was old news 20 years ago. I'm not sure what you
>>                 call it now...
>>
>>                   Scott
>>
>>                 On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Matthew VK3EVL
>>                 <hitman at itglowz.com <mailto:hitman at itglowz.com>> wrote:
>>
>>                     Hi all,
>>                     mildly ammusing but just in case someone from
>>                     microsoft is on list.
>>                     I suggest you run a whois against microsoft.com
>>                     <http://microsoft.com/> [1]
>>
>>                     Cheers
>>                     Matthew
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