[9185] in North American Network Operators' Group
Kudos to Internic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Bush)
Wed May 7 19:07:58 1997
From: Matt Bush <xomox@boris.eden.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 17:42:07 -0500 (CDT)
Hola, All.
After scanning through some spew from one of our nameservers,
I noticed a _lot_ of these:
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May 7 17:05:06 ns1 named[4332]: bad referral (net !< wow.net)
May 7 17:05:06 ns1 last message repeated 8 times
May 7 17:05:06 ns1 named[4332]: unrelated additional info 'a.root-servers.net'
type A from [196.3.138.30].53
May 7 17:05:06 ns1 named[4332]: unrelated additional info 'b.root-servers.net'
type A from [196.3.138.30].53
[ ...[b-h]... ]
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So, I decide to do a whois...
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$ whois wow.net
[No name] (ID?)
³
D
The InterNIC Registration Services Host contains ONLY Internet Information
[ ... ]
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Odd. I decide to see if the database is working at all.
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$ whois eden.net
Sorry, you shouldn't see this record.
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Shouldn't I? Hrm..
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$ whois internic.net
260 Franklin Street
Boston, MA 02110
US (ID?)
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Good to know they are on the ball in this time of potential competition.
Cheers,
-Matt
