[30336] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: whois databases and null fields
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Eddings)
Wed Jul 26 23:19:51 2000
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 20:17:46 -0700
From: Ken Eddings <eddingsk@apple.com>
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To: Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net>,
Timothy Brown <tcb@ga.prestige.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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I seem to be getting my bills just fine. This part of their database
doesn't seem to be affected. I.e. the data under the contact handle
is complete.
Still, it's a bit disconcerting to see this stuff go away.
Cheers,
KE557
At 7:20 PM -0700 7/26/2000, Bill Woodcock wrote:
> > Administrative Contact:
> > [No name] (NA4189-ORG) [No mailbox]
> > [No address]
> > [No phone]
> > Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
> > [No name] (KE557) [No mailbox]
> > [No address]
> > [No phone]
> > Billing Contact:
> > [No name] (BC478-ORG) [No mailbox]
> > [No address]
> > [No phone]
>
>You're seeing a bug in NSI's whois server which has been manifesting
>itself in the past couple of weeks. Doesn't affect all records, and in
>the past, affected records have been corrected after half a day or so.
>
> -Bill
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