[17427] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: INTERNIC Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Mon Jun 1 12:19:55 1998
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 23:42:04 -0400
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@shell.nacs.net>
To: Ben Kirkpatrick <bkirkpat@eli.net>
Cc: Al Reuben <alex@nac.net>, nanog@merit.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.980528100154.5888B-100000@mothership.eli.net>; from Ben Kirkpatrick on Thu, May 28, 1998 at 10:14:52AM -0700
On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 10:14:52AM -0700, Ben Kirkpatrick wrote:
> It's been awhile since I messed with this, but I seem to remember
> something that worked like this. After you submit the template, you
> should get back a receipt with the NIC tracking number in the
> subject line. To get status, you finger #######@rs.internic.net ,
> or maybe it was ops.internic.net. The result should be easy to
> parse cuz it's always in the same format.
> The down side is that you often don't get the receipt in time and
> that you're using the Internic's database key instead of your own.
finger NIC-#####@rs.internic.net
I think you can also do this for open invoices you have with them,
as well as tickets opened for correspondence with InterNIC staff.
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