[nsp-sec] Is www.ssa.gov gone?

[Greg Schwimer]

It's gone for me:

ping: unknown host www.saa.gov
Host www.saa.gov not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

; <<>> DiG 9.5.0-P2 <<>> A www.saa.gov
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 65237
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.saa.gov.                   IN      A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
gov.                    10679   IN      SOA     a.gov.zoneedit.com. 
govcontact.zoneedit.com. 1247659263 3600 900 1814400 629



On Wednesday 15 July 2009 12:24:31 pm White, Gerard wrote:
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>
> Work fine from Up North, eh?
>
> Non-authoritative answer:
> Name:    www.ssa.gov
> Address:  199.173.225.5
>
>
> GW
> 855 - Bell Aliant
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nsp-security-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:nsp-security-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Joel
> Rosenblatt
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 4:31 PM
> To: nsp-security at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [nsp-sec] Is www.ssa.gov gone?
>
> ----------- nsp-security Confidential --------
>
> Hi,
>
> We can no longer find www.ssa.gov - looks like it's missing from DNS
> also.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this, or is it just us
>
> Thanks,
> Joel
>
> Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
> Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
> Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
> http://www.columbia.edu/~joel
>
>
>
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