RE: fbi.gov weirdness?

[Rob Keown <Keown () MACDIRECT COM>]

Probably the draft release was hurried for publication and the "working
title" was not renamed. They discovered it and quickly fixed it.

As far as the DNS, I imagine the FBI has some flexible hosting to avoid dDos
attacks and the like.

I wouldn't be concerned about the name change or DNS shifts (not saying I
wouldn't be concerned about the subject of the press release).


Rob Keown
MAC DIRECT

-----Original Message-----
From: cg [mailto:cg.me () verizon net]
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 6:41 PM
To: incidents () securityfocus com
Subject: fbi.gov weirdness?


Hi All,
    I hope I'm posting this to the right list. I'm most likely just paranoid
but is there something weird going on with the fbi.gov site?
1. The new warning that they put out was /pressrel/pressrel01/skyfall.htm
2. Then it was changed to /pressrel/pressrel01/101101.htm
3. So after seeing the first url change I tried to go back to skyfall.htm
and I got a Not Found error with a
    link that said to go back to or notify the refering site. By clicking
this I went to the Yahoo! email login
    site. I had just opened my browser at home for the first time today, so
it wasn't a cache or anything.
4. Now as I look further by looking at DNS at COSTE, UXN and geektools.com I
find differing ip             addresses. COSTE reports 216.200.14.114, while
the two others (which look truer to me)                     64.124.161.77.

Is anyone else seeing this??


Thanks for being patient with my paranoia.

C. Gordon


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