[39369] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SWIP update intervals (was: Re: Getting an AS and /18)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam McKenna)
Tue Jul 3 17:18:32 2001
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 14:16:01 -0700
From: Adam McKenna <adam@flounder.net>
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On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:41:12PM -0700, Gary E. Miller wrote:
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> Yo Randy!
>
> That may be, but I still need valid whois data to track down network
> problems in progress. I use whois many times a day for this and bad
> data just makes net management a lot harder.
Instead of keeping e-mail addresses in WHOIS, why not just keep a URL that
(theoretically) has up-to-date contact information. This would allow the
organization to publish whatever e-mail addresses they wanted to, as well as
solving the problem of spammers walking the db. A web page should be just as
easy (if not easier) to keep up to date than WHOIS data.
--Adam
