Kudos to Internic

[Matt Bush <xomox () boris eden com>]

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
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