[188172] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: finding whois servers, was .pro whois registry down?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Thu Mar 10 11:26:07 2016
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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:20:02 +0000
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
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John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>
> I've set up <domain>.ws.sp.am (that's ws for Whois Server) which is
> updated every day from a variety of sources so it's pretty accurate.
> It's had the right server for pro.ws.sp.am all along.
It would be extra super helpful if every entry were a wildcard, so you
could look up (say) example.com.ws.sp.am and get a CNAME for the right
whois server. The reason for this is that the relevant whois server is not
always keyed off just the TLD, and sometimes the TLD doesn't provide a
referral. A particular case I know of is ac.uk vs. uk. You could have
*.uk.ws.sp.am. CNAME whois.nic.uk.
*.ac.uk.ws.sp.am. CNAME whois.ja.net.
Then I could look up cambridge.ac.uk.ws.sp.am and
cambridge.net.uk.ws.sp.am and get the right pointer in each case with a
single DNS lookup.
Tony.
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