[27450] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: whois broke again?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Sun Feb 20 12:05:37 2000
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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 09:02:03 -0500
From: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
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"Roeland M.J. Meyer" wrote:
>
> There has been plenty of complaints lodged. NameSecure happens to finally
> have port 43 whois service running, for the first time. I don't mean to
> sound like an apologist for NSI, but they've been having plenty of trouble
> with SRS. I leave it as a value judgement as to the appropriateness of
> rolling out code that doesn't pass the most basic of QA muster, and whose
> design and architecture is protected by the most stringent and arcane NDA
> that I've ever seen.
>
That's odd, it's supposed to be an internet-draft. Not that I've actually
read it, but ....
> The point; there's plenty of mud to go around. It's about time that you guys
> got involved enough to fix it, instead of piss-and-moan.
>
That's right. We have redundant DNS root servers, why do we have a single
point of failure in the whois? So, we need 5 volunteers to step up and
be our chosen whois mirrors.
WSimpson@UMich.edu
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