[6895] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internic registries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Petach)
Sat Jan 11 17:01:50 1997
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
To: jordy@snappy.wserv.com (jordy)
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 13:59:05 -0800 (PST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970111122456.28734B-100000@snappy.wserv.com> from "jordy" at Jan 11, 97 12:28:55 pm
>
> I was doing some maintanace on some of my domains a few days back and
> decided to update my Internic contact information. Low and behold I found
> that the company field in the whois query was wrong. I did a whois on a
> few other internic handles I know and it looks as if they are wrong as
> well.
>
> I thought at first that maybe someone changed my Internic contact
> registration (which is why I'm sending my PGP key to them right now), but
> the last update time is months ago, and I'm sure I would have noticed it
> before now.
>
> So did Internic's whois server break? Or did their registery get corrupt?
Looks like the registry is corrupt; My contact information is corrupt
now as well, as is my girlfriend's; we've both gotten assigned to
Lobo Net, rather than our proper locations. I looked up JM2789, but
it's garbled in a different manner. I wonder if everyone associated
with a particular domain is garbled in the same way?
Anyhow, this really bites. If the InterNIC wants to charge for
services, they really MUST take better care of the data.
> - --
> Jordan Mendelson : www.wserv.com/~jordy
> Web Services, Inc. : www.wserv.com
Matt Petach (MP59, also check BL223 for another data point)
NetFlight Consulting Services
