On 24 Mar 2014, at 21:46, Leo Vandewoestijne <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not exactly official, but the same binairy is using "whois-servers.net", > for anything it doesn't know. I sent a patch to OpenBSD's whois.c that Theo committed in OPENBSD_2_6 at the end of 1999 that made use of Rodney's whois-servers.net. Semi-automagic selection of whois servers subsequently appeared in other BSDs; there may well have been Linux whois variants that did it earlier. But anyway, this kind of behaviour has been around for a while. > So for some ccTLD's I've requested for an update of missing CNAME entries, > that were listed in whois.iana.org, but not yet working in whois-servers.net. > They now work to, but I'm curious how much they will keep up with the nTLD's. Rodney has always been supremely responsive to any suggestions I have sent his way. The new gTLDs have requirements in their contracts that the whois server is always found at whois.nic.TLD, I think, which ought to make it easy to keep up to date. A nice feature of looking this stuff up in the DNS is that the namespace easily accommodates different servers at different levels, for the bits that feature that kind of structure. [walrus:~]% host co.uk.whois-servers.net co.uk.whois-servers.net is an alias for whois.nic.uk. whois.nic.uk has address 213.248.242.41 whois.nic.uk has IPv6 address 2a01:618:8009::92d:f97:4c90:2b79 [walrus:~]% host ac.uk.whois-servers.net ac.uk.whois-servers.net is an alias for whois.ja.net. whois.ja.net has address 128.86.25.18 whois.ja.net mail is handled by 1 rimmer.ja.net. whois.ja.net mail is handled by 2 kryten.ja.net. [walrus:~]% Joe _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
