Because Registrars believe they should offer recursive whois proxy service on their authoritative whois service.
A flawed decision in my opinion. And one that I thought had been addressed twice already and resulted in Tucows changing their whois to lookup locally first, and still provide proxy service for lookups that failed locally. (Which I argue should be done on an entirely separate service) But it appears Tucows has yet again decided to do whois in this fashion again. I think it is a step backwards personally. Wednesday, June 12, 2002, 2:02:56 PM, 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? -- Best regards, William X Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- OpenSRS installation and customizations Payment Processing Integration Apache Installation and Support Services http://www.wxsoft.com/
