Yes William, we're only authoritative for ourself.
Also - since we may have information in our database that does NOT agree
with CRSNIC, we cannot query ourselves first. For example:
1) A domain is registered but not yet active. Should not show up in the
whois
2) A domain is transfered away from OpenSRS (crsnic shows this) but our
system hasn't updated yet. Should not show up in the whois - but it will
3) A domain is transfered to OpenSRS - the root registry transaction is
successful so our whois will show up, but crsnic has not updated. Agreed
this scenario is flawed as we're relying on crsnic... but
Whois is NOT an authoritative source for availability of a name, NOR does it
accurately show in realtime which registrar is currently responsible for a
domain.
We must build our logic within the constructs of these assumptions - in
brief the whois will likely remain in its current functionality which has
worked for 99% of you for almost a year.
--
Charles Daminato
Tucows Product Manager (ccTLDs)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to
time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of William X. Walsh
> Sent: November 28, 2000 12:30 PM
> To: Ross Wm. Rader
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re[2]: PLEASE Fix the whois server once and for all
>
>
> 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?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> William mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
