[44149] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS Host Handles/Registrations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam McKenna)
Wed Nov 7 17:34:09 2001
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 14:28:35 -0800
From: Adam McKenna <adam-nanog@flounder.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 02:58:08PM -0600, measl@mfn.org wrote:
>
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Adam McKenna wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 02:17:02PM -0600, measl@mfn.org wrote:
> > > This link is what I was looking for. Thanks! I find it interesting that
> > > NSOL is the only one who has responsibility for this??? Shouldn't *all*
> > > registrars have this ability?
> >
> > They do.
>
> No, they do not. At least for the ones I use (register.com and SRS).
OpenSRS certainly does. I don't use register.com so I can't comment on them.
> > Don't change your info at NSOL if NSOL is not your registrar.
>
> It appears that the person who "believed" that NSOL was the central
> repository for this was correct. Changes are made at NSOL, and picked up
> by other resgistrars via whois.
No. This is incorrect. Feel free to go try to get this done at NSOL, but I
assure you that you will only succeed in frustrating yourself.
--Adam