Ask HN: Mac users - Can you do a Whois query 4m terminal?

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.

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fogcity 11y ago ↗

A whois or a traceroute?

quackerhacker 11y ago ↗

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

st3fan 11y ago ↗

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.