[23605] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internic and PGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Shaw)
Tue Mar 30 22:05:25 1999
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 22:03:44 -0500
From: David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: guard-talk@internic.net
Mail-Followup-To: nanog@merit.edu, guard-talk@internic.net
In-Reply-To: <19990330174818.15492@cybernothing.org>; from J.D. Falk on Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 05:48:18PM -0800
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 05:48:18PM -0800, J.D. Falk wrote:
>
> On 03/30/99, Jeff Frost <batalion@apocalypse.org> wrote:
>
> > Has anyone else been having problems modifying domain templates, etc using
> > PGP authentication at the Internic? I called today because I've been
> > having problems for a week and was told that Network Solutions is having
> > difficulties with their PGP keyserver. No ETA on when it's going to be
> > fixed. I'm just wondering if this is the truth or if the tech is just not
> > willing to help me with my domain issues.
>
> It's been nonfunctional (at least according to NSI) for some
> time now, probably more than a year, though they may have
> had it functional for short periods therein.
I wasn't aware that NSI had announced it was nonfunctional. If they
officially know that it's down, whyintheheck do they still promote it on
their web site?
Call me crazy, but p romoting a service that they know is broken (and has
been broken for months) and has no particular ETA to be fixed seems like a
stupid thing to do.
So Guardian is dead, and now there are going to be a lot more
registrations like 'mybigstiffy.com' (try a whois on it), and a lot more
people registering all sorts of domains and pointing them to random
nameservers. Oh joy, what a wonderful leap *backwards* this all is.
David
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