Interesting website for Apple Firewire...

qo · Post by qo » Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:27 am

For those concerned about Apple and firewire.

I typed in the URL below just to see what would be there. Does the site look familiar?

http://www.firewire.org/

Here's the output from dig:

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qo@linux:~> dig firewire.org

; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> firewire.org
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 15233
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;firewire.org.                  IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
firewire.org.           86110   IN      A       17.254.0.91

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
firewire.org.           86110   IN      NS      nserver2.apple.com.
firewire.org.           86110   IN      NS      nserver.apple.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
nserver.apple.com.      298300  IN      A       17.254.0.50
nserver2.apple.com.     40154   IN      A       17.254.0.59

;; Query time: 5 msec
;; SERVER: 171.70.168.183#53(171.70.168.183)
;; WHEN: Tue Jan 24 10:24:48 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 132

methezer · Post by **methezer** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 11:47 am

stephentayler · Post by **stephentayler** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:08 am

How very curious!!!!!!

Stephen

papageno · Post by **papageno** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:45 am

I don't think that dropping FW is a serious concern.
This was one rumour that wasn't true.