[23154] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RFC 2142 (was Re: Suggestion: Add contact entry to whois)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Fri Feb 26 17:32:28 1999
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:31:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
To: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cp.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <19990226140549.37108@cp.net>
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, J.D. Falk wrote:
> On 02/26/99, Owen DeLong <owen@dixon.DeLong.SJ.CA.US> wrote:
> > OK, perhaps, then, we should consider two contacts:
> Unfortunately, "we" is not the same body of people that can
> actually make the changes to WHOIS.
> Luckily, "we" don't have to -- we could just follow RFC 2142.
> http://www.geektools.com/rfc/rfc2142.txt
rfc2142 only deals with email addresses, what if the host is conducting a
denial of service attack and you need to call someone. email addresses are
rather less useful then. a quick whois and ring up is usually more
effective in getting an attack shut down.
-Dan
