[16012] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: oh, for goodness' sake.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Tue Apr 7 17:06:38 1998
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 15:59:41 -0500
From: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>
To: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@vix.com>
Cc: Andrew Crawford <andrewc@nildram.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980407133803.48138@vix.com>; from J.D. Falk on Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 01:38:03PM -0700
On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 01:38:03PM -0700, J.D. Falk wrote:
> On 04/07/98, Andrew Crawford <andrewc@nildram.net> wrote:
>
> > > Domain Name: RIPE.NET
> > > Domain Status: On Hold <<<<<<------
> >
> > This is apparently causing some routing problems; many ISPs (especially in
> > Europe) build their BGP filters from the data at whois.ripe.net at regular
> > intervals. No whois.ripe.net = no routing policy data = screwed up BGP.
> >
> > Perhaps there should be a list of "sacred" domains that should never be
> > suspended no matter *how* long they go without paying their fees. I wonder
> > what happened in this case?
>
> If the .NET TLD was still just for backbone infrastructure,
> it'd make sense to do that. Perhaps RIPE qualifies for .INT?
>
> No matter what it is, I agree...services like RIPE are way
> too important to the everyday functioning of the Internet to
> be turned off because of some NSI policy change.
>
> --
> J.D. Falk <jdfalk@vix.com>
> Vixie Enterprises http://www.vix.com/
So are forcing domain lookups for this kind of thing.
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