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RE: whois broke again?
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 22:42:03 -0800
There has been plenty of complaints lodged. NameSecure happens to finally have port 43 whois service running, for the first time. I don't mean to sound like an apologist for NSI, but they've been having plenty of trouble with SRS. I leave it as a value judgement as to the appropriateness of rolling out code that doesn't pass the most basic of QA muster, and whose design and architecture is protected by the most stringent and arcane NDA that I've ever seen. Also, many of you have users that have been entering bogus info in the whois database for years, and never said anything then. The point; there's plenty of mud to go around. It's about time that you guys got involved enough to fix it, instead of piss-and-moan. ICANN is supposed to inherit the root-servers.net and damned few have ever even seen a *nix shell. In the past two years, the big 8 have been conspicuous, by total absence from the IFWP/ICANN/etc scene. The NTIA/DOC has already cut IANA funding and ICANN has already accepted responsibility. Parts of ICANN ain't looking good. I'm not at all sure that it shouldn't die. Now you bitch about things not working right? ... duh! What the hell did you expect?!
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of John Hawkinson Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 9:48 PM To: Alex Rubenstein Cc: nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: whois broke again?Whats amazing to me is that there is not one peep from NSIabout this, nonews service picked up on it, and it will go unnoticed, in general. Isn't it amazing that a company as significant on the 'net asNSI can havesuch repetitive, continual database problems, and no one cares?Perhaps it's because no one bothers to report the problems to them instead people send mail to bitch-and-moan () merit edu which just happens to forward to nanog? --jhawk
Current thread:
- whois broke again? Brad (Feb 19)
- Re: whois broke again? Kevin Day (Feb 19)
- Re: whois broke again? NANOG Mailing List (Feb 19)
- Re: whois broke again? Alex Rubenstein (Feb 19)
- Re: whois broke again? John Hawkinson (Feb 19)
- Re: whois broke again? Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 19)
- Re: whois broke again? NANOG Mailing List (Feb 19)
- RE: whois broke again? Roeland M.J. Meyer (Feb 19)
- Re: whois broke again? William Allen Simpson (Feb 20)
- RE: whois broke again? Roeland M.J. Meyer (Feb 20)
- Re: whois broke again? William Allen Simpson (Feb 20)
- Re: whois broke again? Rodney Joffe (Feb 20)
- Re: whois broke again? William Allen Simpson (Feb 20)
- Re: whois broke again? bmanning (Feb 20)
- Re: whois broke again? William Allen Simpson (Feb 20)
- Re: whois broke again? bmanning (Feb 21)
- Re: whois broke again? NANOG Mailing List (Feb 19)
- Re: whois broke again? Kevin Day (Feb 19)
- Re: whois broke again? Rodney Joffe (Feb 20)
- Re: whois broke again? Paul Vixie (Feb 21)