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Re: LinkedIn suffers DNS hijack

#3
Seeing 204.11.56.17 for their A record which is

    OrgName:        Confluence Networks Inc
    OrgId:          CN
    Address:        3rd Floor, Omar Hodge Building, Wickhams
    Address:        Cay I, P.O. Box 362
    City:           Road Town
    StateProv:      Tortola
    PostalCode:     VG1110
    Country:        VG
    RegDate:        2011-04-07
    Updated:        2011-07-05

Re: LinkedIn suffers DNS hijack

#6
post #3

Seeing 204.11.56.17 for their A record which is OrgName: Confluence Networks Inc OrgId: CN Address: 3rd Floor, Omar Hodge Building, Wickhams Address: Cay I, P.O. Box 362 City: Road Town StateProv: Tortola PostalCode: VG1110 Country: VG RegDate: 2011-04-07 Updated: 2011-07-05

I'm getting 216.52.242.80. Looks legit:

  [prhodes@captainchaos ~]$ whois   216.52.242.80@whois.arin.net
  [Querying whois.arin.net]
  [whois.arin.net]

  #
  # ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of   Use
  # available at: https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html
  #


  #
  # Query terms are ambiguous.  The query is assumed to be:
  #     "n 216.52.242.80"
  #
  # Use "?" to get help.
  #

  #
  # The following results may also be obtained via:
  # http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=216.52.242.80? showDetails=true&showARIN=false&ext=netref2
  #

  LinkedIn Corporation INAP-LAX-LINKEDIN-38682 (NET-216-52-  242-0-1) 216.52.242.0 - 216.52.242.255
  Internap Network Services Corporation PNAP-8-98 (NET-216-52-0-0-1) 216.52.0.0 - 216.52.255.255

Re: LinkedIn suffers DNS hijack

#9
post #7

I guess they didn't mark their cookies as 'Secure'. Oh well, the real story here is an app.net link at #1 on HN.

> Oh well, the real story here is an app.net link at #1 on HN.

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or a serious comment. Could you elaborate on this comment? I don't get why a link by app.net would be news worthy.

Re: LinkedIn suffers DNS hijack

#10
post #7

I guess they didn't mark their cookies as 'Secure'. Oh well, the real story here is an app.net link at #1 on HN.

> Oh well, the real story here is an app.net link at #1 on HN. I can't tell if this is sarcasm or a serious comment. Could you elaborate on this comment? I don't get why a link by app.net would be news worthy.

I guess because it's not twitter!
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