What the hell?

From: Daniel Rudy (dcrudy_at_invalid.pacbell.nospam.net.0123456789)
Date: 09/19/03 

Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:10:42 GMT

Hello,

I noticed this problem on monday. I cannot print from FreeBSD to the
Win2K print server. The jobs stay in queue for a few minutes then
timeout. I also noticed that about the same time, my email and DNS
servers went nuts. After some investigation, I have found that no
matter what domain name I put in, it resolves here:
http://sitefinder.verisign.com/.

wildfire:/root 1028 ### ->nslookup www.asdfasdfasdf.com
Server: localhost.danielrudy.org
Address: 127.0.0.1

Name: www.asdfasdfasdf.com
Address: 64.40.102.41

wildfire:/root 1029 ### ->nslookup www.asdf1234.com
Server: localhost.danielrudy.org
Address: 127.0.0.1

Name: www.asdf1234.com
Address: 64.94.110.11

wildfire:/root 1030 ### ->nslookup www.ksjdhryfdh37fj7.com
Server: localhost.danielrudy.org
Address: 127.0.0.1

Name: www.ksjdhryfdh37fj7.com
Address: 64.94.110.11

wildfire:/root 1032 ### ->whois -i ksjdhryfdh37fj7.com

Welcome to the Network Solutions WHOIS Server.
There is no match for this domain name.
This domain is available for purchase!
Go to www.netsol.com to register it today!

wildfire:/root 1031 ### ->whois -a 64.94.110.11
Internap Network Services PNAP-05-2000 (NET-64-94-0-0-1)
                                  64.94.0.0 - 64.95.255.255
VeriSign/Network Solutions PNAP-LAX-VERISI-RM-13 (NET-64-94-110-0-1)
                                  64.94.110.0 - 64.94.110.255

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2003-09-18 19:15
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
wildfire:/root 1032 ### ->

What the hell is going on here? Why does a non-existant domain name
resolve to an IP address? 

-- 
Daniel Rudy
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