[27479] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: whois broke again?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Mon Feb 21 04:01:12 2000
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@mibh.net>
Date: 21 Feb 2000 00:58:54 -0800
In-Reply-To: rjoffe@centergate.com's message of "20 Feb 2000 23:56:37 -0800"
Message-ID: <g366vj6iep.fsf@redpaul.mibh.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
the original purpose of the SRV RR was to let each network element
potentially have its own whois server. this makes the assumption
that DNS available, and some people didn't like that.
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Paul Vixie <vixie@mibh.net>
SVP for Internet Services, MFNX
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