Hello Ross,
Tuesday, November 28, 2000, 6:33:00 AM, you wrote:
>> > Here is my proposed solution:
>> >
>> > 1) OpenSRS' whois should return results only for data local to the
>> > OpenSRS registration database
>> >
>> > 2) At a minimum, if #1 is ruled out, the whois server should stop
>> > querying the internic whois first, and instead search the local
>> > database first, and only do a forwarded query if the local search
>> > returns no results.
> But then in both cases, the data can never be reasonably authoritative, and
> therefore not really all that useful....
> Wouldn't it make more sense to go with a third option that works the same
> way our whois does now, but adds the capability to parse for no response
> from crsnic and then automatically performs a local lookup on the OpenSRS
> db?
Isn't the OpenSRS whois server only supposed to be authoritative for
the data that is local to it anyway?
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Best regards,
William mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
