[19242] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Wed Sep 2 22:16:53 1998
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: dwatts@vitts.com (Dan Watts)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 12:14:35 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980902182708.AAA17319@custsrv1.vitts.com@tranquility> from "Dan Watts" at Sep 2, 98 02:27:08 pm
> Why not use rwhois and distribute the load like DNS is? Let registerants
> decide if they want to provide rwhois support for their own domain(s) or
> if they want to delegate the task to the InterNIC to handle it.
>
> Gee... imagine being able to update data about your DNS domains immediately
> instead of having to wait for the InterNIC to process the request.
>
> Just my $0.02.
>
> --
> Dan Watts
> Vitts Networks
> dwatts@vitts.com
Actually, you could kill two birds w/ one stone by keeping the data
in your inverse delegations. There has been some thought on this
which could double as a distributed IRR, esp. for those who have
trouble getting to/through those centralized databases.
A brief note on how this might be done may be found at:
http://www.isi.edu/div7/people/bmanning.home/inet98.html
if I might toot my own horn here. Note that this is similar
to, but does not go quite as far as the presentation given at
a recent NANOG mtg.
--bill
