With some architecture changes to our whois recently (some of which are visible) it was necessary to adapt so we checked crsnic first (our "check locally and verify with registry" was creating far too much traffic, and "check locally" without verifying with registry was just as misleading). This is a necessary draw back that we're working on resolving.
Charles Daminato TUCOWS Product Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, J. Vogel wrote: > Just wondering what is the reason for OpenSRS whois > to not answer with local information a direct query for a name > for which they are authoritative. > transferred from register.com to OpenSRS, > completed this morning according to RWI, > root nameserver hasn't updated yet, and > Opensrs still agrees (`whois [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > that register.com has the correct data and suggests I get it from > register.com > > Same thing happend yesterday for another domain. I would have thought > that Opensrs would check locally first, then check the central registry for > names it didn't have locally? > > >
