www.winehq.org resolves to smth strange.

Rolf Kalbermatter r.kalbermatter at hccnet.nl
Wed Apr 11 01:15:52 CDT 2007


Kirill K. Smirnov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've noticed very strange thing today: www.winehq.org resolves to 
> http://searchportal.information.com/index.mas?epl=00630086VFAXVE0DWlgV
> VRBeVwtAVw5ZB14NW1YMBAhCUVZRWRQbWxBfHwRsXQUNU1oBVFc
> 
> This site claims to be winehq.org.
> 
> "Winehq.org - What you need, when you need it"
> 
> I cannot perform "git fetch"!!
> 
> Quick workaround I found is to use winehq.com, but how can I explain 
> this to git?
> 
> Does anybody except me suffer the same mystery thing?
> Some info (I do not understand everything, but it may be useful):
> lich at clst:~/wine$ dig www.winehq.org
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> www.winehq.org
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 54611 ;; flags: qr 
> rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;www.winehq.org.                        IN      A
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> www.winehq.org.         94739   IN      A       66.151.179.147
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> winehq.org.             82437   IN      NS      wine.codeweavers.com.
> winehq.org.             82437   IN      NS      foghorn.codeweavers.com.
> 
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> wine.codeweavers.com.   94780   IN      A       209.46.25.134
> foghorn.codeweavers.com. 94780  IN      A       216.251.189.130
> 
> ;; Query time: 18 msec
> ;; SERVER: 195.19.225.253#53(195.19.225.253) ;; WHEN: Tue Apr 10 
> 22:55:48 2007 ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 136
> 
> lich at clst:~$ nslookup 66.151.179.147
> Server:         195.19.225.253
> Address:        195.19.225.253#53
> 
> ** server can't find 147.179.151.66.in-addr.arpa: NXDOMAIN

If it would be Windows I would say some spyware/spamware has hijacked your
lmhost file. But this way??

At least here everything seems alright.

Rolf Kalbermatter 





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