Roeland and all,
I fear that roeland is correct here. It is likely both a ill-thoughtout
architecture
and an incomplete implementation. I pointed this out some timea ago when
looking over Kents specs on SRS and made some brief observations...
Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> Actually, this presents a problem. Most whois clients only look at the
> single registry, assuming one registrar per TLD and they do NOT
> differentiate between registries and registrars, as that is a recent
> distinction. Certainly, whois does not understand that there may be
> multiple whois servers to search for a TLD.
>
> The compatible answer is for the SRS to update the registry at all
> times, with sufficient information to populate whoisd. Also, a whois
> client can be updated and distrbuted, but that will take a while to
> propogated through the net (years). It is much better to fix it on the
> server-end. This is also part of database synchronization, IMTO (In My
> Technical Opinion). It indicates an ill-thoughtout architecture or an
> incomplete implementation.
>
> -----------------------------
> Roeland M.J. Meyer
> Morgan Hill Software Company, Inc.
> http://staff.mhsc.com/~rmeyer
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----------------------------
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Owner-Domain-Policy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of John B. Reynolds
> > Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 9:15 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: have you check your company lately
> >
> >
> > So, if one cares only about whether a domain has been
> > registered and not by
> > whom, one should just query whois.crsnic.net. If the domain has been
> > registered and more details are needed, one should then query
> > the whois
> > server listed in crsnic's response.
> >
> > BTW, DomainWatch shows gameshowhost.com as avalable. Their system is
> > evidently not yet configured to track domains obtained
> > through registrars
> > other than NSI.
> >
> > Rick H. Wesson wrote:
> > > Many of you are running, or work for, companies that register
> > > domains in the .com, .org, and .net heirachy. many of you use
> > > the whois server whois.internic.net to find out if a domain
> > > is available or not. the whois.internic.net server is no longer
> > > authorative.
> > >
> > > for instance, use your companies resources to register
> > gameshowhost.com,
> > > you will find it available when you inquire via
> > whois.internic.net, if you
> > > look in the root zone for com, you will find deligations to
> > > DNS7.REGISTER.COM and DNS8.REGISTER.COM and if you look in
> > > whois.crsnic.net you will see that this domain was infact registered
> > > registry.com, and if you look in whois.registry.com you will get a
> > > complete whois record.
> > >
> > > i'm sure you will also notice that the output of whois.registry.com
> > > is slitely different than whois.internic.net so change your parsers
> > > accordingly.
> > >
> > > also if you just use www.networksolutions.com homepage,
> > they have all
> > > the correct information, just be sure *not* to use
> > > http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois becasue
> > it is wrong
> > > too.
> > >
> > > please check your company to see if it incorrectly showing domains
> > > as available, when they are not.
> > >
> > > regards,
> > >
> > > -rick
> > >
> >
Regards,
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Jeffrey A. Williams
CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
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