On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:26:17PM -0600, Bill Weinman wrote:
> 
> At 03:25 AM 3/21/03, Paul Chvostek wrote:
> >  # whois -h whois.pir.org ho\ unhqint1.un.org
> 
> Keep in mind that, while the contact data may be good the whois record, the 
> IP information is not. The only authoritative source of name/IP translation 
> is DNS.

There is no contact information provided for .ORG host records.

> Personally, I think the whois servers should just stop giving IP addresses 
> at all, they are so often wrong.

For registrar whois servers, I'd agree, but for registry servers that
are *supposed* to be kept up to date, I'd posit that unreliability of a
data source is an indication of a problem to be fixed.

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