[18121] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: small vent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Bligh)
Sat Jun 27 13:39:17 1998
From: Alex Bligh <amb@gxn.net>
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 Jun 1998 10:11:54 PDT."
<Pine.BSI.3.93.980627100932.20705G-100000@sidhe.memra.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 18:30:10 +0100
> > 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.
>
> Why can't the ISPs get their act together and use a whois client that
> allows a simple request like "whois name" to find the appropriate
> database? This is simple enough that it could be done with a PERL script
> frontend to the regular whois client and as an added bonus it could lookup
> info in the country-code TLD databases as well.
If people used a WKS RR for whois in reverse and forward DNS this would
solve this problem with a very small client hack, and allow for future
changes throughout both the namespace and IP hierachy.
--
Alex Bligh
GX Networks (formerly Xara Networks)
