Hello Dave,
Friday, November 10, 2000, 6:30:29 PM, you wrote:
>> Even if they fix their whois, your domain won't show up in the system
>> until it is actually transferred. This is how it should be, since the
>> domain is technically not in the OpenSRS system yet either.
> Yes... And no. It will allow the OpenSRS whois to work in real time, where
> as the root's whois is a couple days lagged. When I moved my first domain
> from NetSol to OpenSRS, I actually had it on opensrs, made one DNS update
> (Which NetSol hadn't bothered to do for over a week before my transfer
> request went in -- That's why I transferred, I needed my site up!), realized
> my typo (After the root servers loaded the bad data), and fixed the typo,
> and actually saw the domain propagate before the root's whois updated
> properly.
Yes, but you didn't get to make the change until the transfer had been
complete, even if the registry whois didn't show it yet.
> In short, the root's whois is slow. NetSol's whois is slow. OpenSRS is
> normally pretty sweet.
The issue is that even though the domain has been transfered and is on
OpenSRS's system, that a whois query to whois.opensrs.net will not
return the opensrs information for that domain until the registry
whois updates. This is because (and this is confirmed from OpenSRS)
they query the registry whois server FIRST. Then, if they find a
match, it goes to the whois listed in the Registry. If it doesn't
find a match, or if the whois listed in the registry whois is
whois.opensrs.net, THEN it will query locally.
I'm against Registrars doing recursive lookups on other registrars at
all, personally, but recognizing that some probably think this is a
good idea, at a minimum the whois should query the local database
first before going out and searching another.
--
Best regards,
William mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
