[10464] in North American Network Operators' Group
re: URGENT! Root Servers not updated
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Thu Jul 3 01:41:37 1997
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 08:35:08 +0300 (IDT)
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199707030335.UAA03041@wisdom.rc.vix.com>
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Paul A Vixie wrote:
>
> I am informing the NANOG and IETF communities since this will be a major
> operational/integrity issue that all service providers and their customers
> will shortly face. I have also informed (by BCC of this message) the NSI
> operations personnel of their error in case they wish to correct it.
>
> It should be noted in passing that I am among the millions of Internet
> users who disagrees with NSI's claim of intellectual property rights over
> these zones. If this breakage is found to be an intentional act by NSI
> rather than some simple operational error, then I will shortly expect the
> IANA to ask me, and the other root name server operators, to point our
> name servers at a _new_ "InterNIC" operator which is not Network Solutions.
On a related note, how do people these days determine who is the owner of
an AS# that is registered with Internic? All attempts for the past 2
months with commands like "whois -h whois.internic.net asxxxx" result in
totally corrupted data.
Thanks,
Hank Nussbacher
