OpenSRS WHOIS is real-time tied directly to the registration systems. They do not cover up system downtime like the other registrars (intentionally or unintentially). Some examples are (1) register.com has a cache of registration data so if you try to register a domain through them during an outage they will say "oh yeah that domain is available, give us your money..."; (2) Network Solutions WHOIS and NSI Registry WHOIS runs off a separate database that is only updated once every 24 ot 48 hours. If you run your WHOIS and availability lookups off of old cached data, then nobody will ever know you are down. Personally I prefer the real-time aspect of OpenSRS systems, at least that why you really know if a domain is available or not and you always have the latest contact information for a domain (i.e. no need to wait until they get around to updating the WHOIS database, however it would be nice if they would put up a message stating the real-time registration systems are currently down for maintenance. Here is the message from NSI Regsitry: The Production RRP Interface and Multilingual Production Testbed Environments will be taken offline for a scheduled maintenance beginning at 0100 hrs UTC on February 25, 2001 (2000 hrs EST on February 24, 2001) and ending at 0500 hrs UTC (0000 hrs EST). The reason for this scheduled maintenance is to perform software upgrades. Richard J. Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>>OpenSRS has a maintenance window this evening for about another hour. > >>> > >>>This was announced well in advance. > > > >> What's with all this sceduled maintenance crap anyway? I don't see > >> why they have to be taken off the air. > > > >Talk to NSI Registry. They have it in their contract that they get > >these down times monthly, and this down time is linked to the NSI > >Registry scheduled downtime. > > NSI registry whois was up and told me to go look at opensrs registrar > whois which was refusing connections. What's that got to do with NSI? Ron Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I knew OpenSRS's Whois blocking I complained about > last week was indicative of much greater problems over > at OpenSRS. It appears to me they lack the resources > to properly maintain their Whois and related systems... > > As you point out in your other post, how ironic that > NSI's Registrar and Registry Whois systems were up > and running just fine - I can query NSI's Whois from > many locations with no problems unlike OpenSRS's.
