[27473] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: whois broke again?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Mon Feb 21 01:21:23 2000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
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To: wsimpson@greendragon.com (William Allen Simpson)
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 22:50:47 -0800 (PST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <38B094B5.70D63B7F@greendragon.com> from "William Allen Simpson" at Feb 20, 2000 08:28:31 PM
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> > Is it important for parties that control DNS data (domain names and
> > address space) that are connected to "the network" to be identifiable to
> > the community at large, and reachable?
>
> It is important.
>
Two different takes on the matter:
Try %dig <your-asn>.rdi.int. txt
for one of mine: %dig 4555.rdi.int txt
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; 4555.rdi.int, type = TXT, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION:
4555.rdi.int. 1D IN TXT "RPS 0001 descr: LosAngelesPeering exchange"
4555.rdi.int. 1D IN TXT "RPS 0002 aut-num: AS4555"
4555.rdi.int. 1D IN TXT "RPS 0007 admin-c: WM110-NSI"
4555.rdi.int. 1D IN TXT "RPS 0008 tech-c: WM110-NSI"
4555.rdi.int. 1D IN TXT "RPS 0009 remarks: The first live example of this technique"
4555.rdi.int. 1D IN TXT "RPS 0010 remarks: Check the SOA for mnt-by, changed data"
4555.rdi.int. 1D IN TXT "RPS 0011 source: DNS"
4555.rdi.int. 1D IN TXT "RPS 0012 route: 198.32.2.0/24"
4555.rdi.int. 1D IN TXT "RPS 0013 route: 3ffe:08/24"
4555.rdi.int. 1D IN TXT "RPS 0000 person:Bill Manning"
....
and from 2.32.198.in-addr.arpa......
%dig 2.32.198.in-addr.arpa. any
; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> 2.32.198.in-addr.arpa. any
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; 2.32.198.in-addr.arpa, type = ANY, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION:
2.32.198.in-addr.arpa. 1D IN TXT "announced by AS 4555"
2.32.198.in-addr.arpa. 1D IN TXT "RPS 0000 person: Bill Manning"
...
Allows people at each delegation point to publish their policy
and any other pertinent data.
working on something similar w/ rwhois. Yuji is doing a pretty
good job of fixing up some longstanding weaknesses with that
stack, esp. with referals and forwarding.
