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		Ask HN: Mac users - Can you do a Whois query 4m terminal?
		1 point by quackerhacker on July 31, 2014 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 3 comments

		Open a terminal, type "whois google.com", please post some of the results. This may just be my macbook, but since I have trust issues, I don't have friends to ask this simple request. The results I get, even after a restore to Lion, and Mavericks, on 2 separate ISP's (AT&T and Comcast), after resetting both of my routers, are always the same. So I'm starting to think my macbook is compromised, since a traceroute on whois.internic.net yields different results on my Mac than my server. Some results I get for google.com or apple.com: APPLE.COM.HACKED.BY.JAPTRON.ES, GOOGLE.COM.HAS.LESS.FREE.PRON.IN.ITS.SEARCH.ENGINE.THAN.SECZY.COM I've posted up the pics on my twitter since my server is down for now. (@MichaelLargent) Feedback appreciated.

st3fan on July 31, 2014 | [–]

It is just a lame 'leet' trick.

Whois does a partial match .. and people registered name servers with names like APPLE.COM.HACKED.BY.JAPTRON.ES and those show up before the results for APPLE.COM.

fogcity on July 31, 2014 | [–]

A whois or a traceroute?

quackerhacker on July 31, 2014 | [–]

A "whois Google.com" or "whois apple.com".

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