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? http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi)
