Wednesday, June 12, 2002, 3:57:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 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?
> They used to but recently changed (due to registrant confusion I believe > and problems with out of sync data) it to be in sync with the registry > WHOIS. The registry WHOIS must show TUCOWS as registrar before they will > show the data in their local WHOIS. Which is why I think a registrar's authoritative whois should not do anything but local lookups, and not provide recursive services. A registrar who wants to offer a recursive whois proxy should setup a separate whois service for that, and provide an authoritative local whois lookup facility. -- Best regards, William X Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- OpenSRS installation and customizations Payment Processing Integration Apache Installation and Support Services http://www.wxsoft.com/
