[10467] in North American Network Operators' Group
re: URGENT! Root Servers not updated
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Slemko)
Thu Jul 3 02:07:42 1997
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 23:59:14 -0600 (MDT)
From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.96-heb-2.07.970703083213.43970C-100000@rex.ibm.net.il>
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> 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.
Erm... most routing databases use asxxxx, but the NIC uses xxxx. eg.
whois -h whois.internic.net 6171
Note, however, that just because an AS shows as not existing in the
InterNIC's database doesn't mean it doesn't exist. From what the InterNIC
has told me, they have no policy of having pointer records for AS blocks
allocated to regional registries; it happens sometimes, it doesn't happen
sometimes, all depending on what they feel like doing. That means that to
find the owner of an AS you may need to query every regional registery in
the world. Right now there are few enough such registries to make it
possible, but it is certainly an annoyance.
