It looked like a basic whois query from a *nix box. The fact is that there are various servers for whois responses, and MsM used whois.arin.net... you had something like whois.networksolutions.com, hence the difference in response [has to do with whois database].

The 'tool' is whois in *nix. Maybe unixutils has it, if not I think something similar can be acheived with nslookup in Win XP [and I'd guess 200/2003 too].

The traceroute stop may be due to a firewall, given that your path to the server is different than MsM's. I can't test it now because of an issue with my traceroute, but that seens the reason. Simply, becasue of a different location and ISP you're signal goes through another path, and somewhere there there's a firewall.

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MsM is everywhere. Obviously she posted as I was posting. This is freaky
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