[27443] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: whois broke again?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Sun Feb 20 03:31:18 2000
Message-Id: <200002200828.e1K8Sjc22760@black-ice.cc.vt.edu>
To: danny@tcb.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 20 Feb 2000 08:11:39 MST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 03:28:45 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 08:11:39 MST, Danny McPherson <danny@tcb.net> said:
> Absolutely, unless assumming "us" == NANOG. But that's between
> each NSI customer and NSI, not NANOG and NSI. And as an NSI
> customer, once escalated to this level, it's something that I'd
Umm.. note that if NSI drops the Whois information regarding one
of their customers on the floor, that's between *me* and NSI,
not between NSI and the customer.
I at least *HOPE* that the majority of Whois queries are people
looking for contact information for *other* sites, rather than
paranoid "is my entry still OK?" queries. If the latter, we have
a serious problem. If the former, it's *still* not between NSI
and the customer, because the customer who's info I'm trying to find
doesn't *know* that I'm unable to find it. And if I had the info
so I could tell them... I wouldn't be looking in Whois in the first place.
Also, note that "between each customer and NSI" is exactly the sort
of reason why the concept of a class action lawsuit exists. I'm not
saying one is needed, just mentioning the logic behind it....
Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech
