[15753] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internic hosage (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Robb)
Fri Mar 20 14:16:26 1998
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 13:45:56 -0500
To: Eric Eden <erice@internic.net>
From: Dean Robb <pceasy@norfolk.infi.net>
Cc: dalvenjah@dal.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199803191554.KAA29053@ops.internic.net>
At 10:54 3/19/98 -0500, Eric Eden wrote:
>Dalvenjah,
>
>Thanks for your feedback. Network Solutions served over
>35 million WHOIS queries in the month of January 1998.
>The average response time for our WHOIS service is less
>than 5 seconds per query.
Thank you for the statistics. Not sure of their applicability, but it's
nice to know just how heavily used this database is. Hmmm...one would
think that if it's that heavily hit, maybe there would be some interest in
keeping it accurate, yes?
>
>Please keep in mind that Network Solutions is not the
>registry for the .to domain. We recommend you contact
>the Tonic registry for information about .TO domain names.
>Their web site is www.tonic.to
And it's the Kingdom of Tonga's domain, for which Tonic is merely the
Registry.
However, the point has been completely missed here, Eric. The point Dal
was making is that Perhaps.youwant.to FALSIFIED, LIED, FORGED, STOLE,
MISAPPROPRIATED, and otherwise BS'd about their WhoIs entry:
[No name] PERHAPS-HST
Hostname: PERHAPS.YOUWANT.TO
Address: 205.166.250.10
System: ? running ?
Coordinator:
HOST Networks-DNS Administration HNA-ORG hostmaster@HOST.NET
800-697-2437
Fax- 800-697-2437
Record last updated on 16-Mar-98.
Database last updated on 20-Mar-98 04:11:54 EDT.
[perhaps.youwant.to]
Translated Name: perhaps.youwant.to
IP Address: 207.89.50.3
Internet Gateway Connections (NETBLK-IGC-FL-BLK-1)
10011 Pines Boulevard - Suite 203
Pembroke Pines, Florida 33024
Netname: IGC-FL-BLK-1
Netblock: 207.89.0.0 - 207.89.127.255
Maintainer: IGCN
Coordinator:
Master, Host (HM511-ARIN) mike@WEB2000.NET
305-655-2955 (FAX) 305-652-5090
Domain System inverse mapping provided by:
NS3.WEB2000.NET 207.89.0.10
NS4.WEB2000.NET 207.89.0.30
Record last updated on 17-Aug-96.
Database last updated on 19-Mar-98 16:08:42 EDT.
Traceroute confirms that youwant.to is hosted by Web2000.net. The
WhoIs-listed IP is user.host.net, the machine on which Host.Net runs their
webpage, FTP, et al. Not real likely they'd give that out for a hosted
domain's IP.
So....four days ago, youwant.to [side issue: Why does a machine,
"perhaps", have a host entry in WhoIs, but the domain, "youwant.to" not?]
updated their WhoIs record with a bunch of lies. THAT is the point, and
the problem. What is NSI/InterNIC going to do about it, Eric?
>
>Regards,
>
>Eric Eden
>Senior Analyst Network Solutions, Inc.
>Phone: 703-925-6710 erice@internic.net
Spam: it's not just for breakfast anymore....
Dean Robb
PC-Easy
On-site computer services
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