[6898] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internic registries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy Brown)
Sat Jan 11 17:29:27 1997
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 16:20:54 -0600 (CST)
From: Timothy Brown <tbrown@ANET-STL.COM>
To: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
cc: jordy <jordy@snappy.wserv.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199701112159.NAA00076@falcon.netflight.com>
% > 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.
I seem to remember a little while back something that happened -- the
InterNIC had a data corruption "along the wire" (their terms, not mine).
They claimed that the registry data itself had not been corrupted. The
symptoms: Totally bogus information in WHOIS requests for the particular
day, fixed by around 6pm or so CDT, as I recall.
I wonder if the problems that certain entities have been experiencing
relate to this "along the wire" data corruption the NIC mentioned didn't
cause any problems?
/tcb
--
Timothy Brown, Web Architect/Network Engineer, ANET-STL
Affiliation given for identification, not representation.
http://www.anet-stl.com/~tbrown/
