Re: [IFWP] Re: DOJ investigating NSI

[sthaug]

> >Being a TLD administrator, you know as well as I do that the info in
> >the SOA record isn't always correct, and postmaster@ addresses don't
> >always work.
> 
> The whois information isn't always correct either.

I agree. But I'd much rather trust information that *I* (as a TLD admin)
maintain, than SOA records that the individual domain administrators
*sometimes* maintain.

> Oen could put
> th enformation from whois in the DNS itselt as TXT records. You
> could then use DIG and scrap whois altogether. I'm not saying
> one should do that, and it would make the com zone file several gigs
> instead of the 300 megs it is now, but El's right, you don't really
> need whois.

Agreed, it would be possible. Whether it would be *practical* is
another matter.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, [EMAIL PROTECTED]