Saturday, June 22, 2002, 1:26:56 PM, David Delbridge wrote: > Hi all,
> Can anybody explain to me why the Allwhois service > (http://www.allwhois.com) returns the following message for all of our > OpenSRS-registered domains? > "NOTE: THE WHOIS DATABASE IS A CONTACT DATABASE ONLY. LACK OF A DOMAIN > RECORD DOES NOT SIGNIFY DOMAIN AVAILABILITY." > No other information is returned. No contacts. No name servers. This > is particularly troublesome for us as we have written several agents > that use the Allwhois service for determining domain name registration > and configuration status for domains used by our hosting customers. Why would they use a competing registrar's whois to lookup domain info at another registrar? This is yet another example of why registrars should not run recursive dns service on their authoritative whois servers. -- Best regards, William X Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- OpenSRS installation and customizations Payment Processing Integration Apache Installation and Support Services http://www.wxsoft.com/
