[6900] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internic registries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dirk Harms-Merbitz)
Sat Jan 11 17:40:01 1997
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 14:33:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Dirk Harms-Merbitz <dirk@power.net>
To: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu, hostmaster@internic.net
In-Reply-To: <199701112159.NAA00076@falcon.netflight.com>
Yup, looks screwed up. My company info is wrong as well.
Dirk
On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Matthew Petach wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
