[188146] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: .pro whois registry down?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Barton)
Wed Mar 9 21:34:17 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
From: Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 18:34:13 -0800
In-Reply-To: <20160310005427.3E818442EC61@rock.dv.isc.org>
Cc: tld-admin-poc <tld-admin-poc@afilias.info>, Joseph Yee <jyee@afilias.info>,
nanog@nanog.org, tld-tech-poc@afilias.info
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 03/09/2016 04:54 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> Additionally we should be publishing where the whois server for the
> tld is in the DNS. whois applications could be looking for this
> then falling back to other methods.
>
> e.g.
>
> _whois._tcp.pro. srv 0 100 43 whois.afilias.net.
>
> If we want machines to follow referrals we have to provide them in
> appropriate forms.
Brilliant, wish I'd thought of it :)
Doug
