[18114] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: small vent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Salo)
Sat Jun 27 12:39:10 1998
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 11:27:44 -0500 (CDT)
From: Tim Salo <salo@networkcs.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 23:55:20 +0800
> To: brian@meganet.net
> From: "David R. Conrad" <davidc@apnic.net>
> Subject: Re: small vent
>
> One reason might be that clueless folk in the US that complain to APNIC or
> RIPE (or NANOG) directly instead of looking stuff up in the appropriate
> whois database ("ARIN has all the IP information, right?") and complaining
> to the people who can actually do something about the problem.
> [...]
Having to specify the proper database host on the whois command always
struck me a bit like requiring every user to specify the appropriate server
for, e.g. ".com", every time the user makes a DNS request.
Why can't the registry folks get their collective act together and provide
users with a system that allows a simple request like "whois name" to
find the appropriate [piece] of the database.
-tjs
