[15723] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internic hosage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dalvenjah FoxFire)
Thu Mar 19 02:16:12 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 22:59:01 -0800
From: Dalvenjah FoxFire <dalvenjah@dal.net>
To: Dean Robb <pceasy@norfolk.infi.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980318235406.0069f538@norfolk.infi.net>; from Dean Robb on Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 11:54:06PM -0500
On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 11:54:06PM -0500, Dean Robb put this into my mailbox:
> At 19:02 3/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >I'm still shocked that it took 4 days to motify my NIC Handle.
>
> Why? I've got email from their brass admitting that their PGP
> authentication doesn't work; you can register using any name, city, phone
> number or DNS server you want (whether they exist or not; you don't even
> have to use numbers in the phone number area); they refuse to administer
> WhoIs in any manner whatsoever; they can't even afford anyone to answer the
> phones anywhere but on the payment lines.
For a good example of this, whois perhaps.youwant.to, then
nslookup perhaps.youwant.to. It looks like someone tried to pull
a Kashpureff that didn't really succeed.
The nslookup version of perhaps.youwant.to came first, by the way.
So what can we do to actually get something done about it? Anyone?
-dalvenjah
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