does anyone have any idea why the  host  command is aliased, or repeated
as  aaaa  , when I found it I was convinced I'd been hacked on my home
machine down a dialup line.

Some noodling around with strings and diff and a quick run of chkrootkit
made me think that hostile action was unlikely. 

long story short.
-rwxr-xr-x    6 root     root        66812 Jan 27  2001 /usr/bin/host
-rwxr-xr-x    6 root     root        66812 Jan 27  2001 /usr/bin/aaaa

md5sum
1a7beb77615c071ba4423320bf4cf957  /usr/bin/host
1a7beb77615c071ba4423320bf4cf957  /usr/bin/aaaa

the nasty thing is they give different answers

host efn.org
efn.org                 A       206.163.176.5

aaaa efn.org 
efn.org has no AAAA record (Authoritative answer)  <--printed to stderr

pourquois?



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