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Re: InterNIC "whois server <handle>" broke?
From: Alex Bligh <amb () gxn net>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 01:22:07 +0000
The greatest difficulty I see in this is establishing authenticity for everyone. Those with existing authenticity (CRYPT-PW or PGP) could be done. The rest would be a problem, and could invite people trying to assign their own passwords to other people's contact records, and that would end up being a big mess.
Perhaps this is dumb, but how about authentication by ensuring the TCP connection from the whois comes from the server in question. IE you can whois FOO-HST to see which domains are served by FOO-HST only from FOO-HST. Mildly inconvenient, but stops random people pulling off everyones lists. I can't currently think of an OS that supports DNS servers but not whois. -- Alex Bligh GX Networks (formerly Xara Networks)
Current thread:
- Re: InterNIC "whois server <handle>" broke?, (continued)
- Re: InterNIC "whois server <handle>" broke? Derek Balling (Dec 18)
- Re: InterNIC "whois server <handle>" broke? Jeffrey Haas (Dec 18)
- Re: InterNIC "whois server <handle>" broke? Derek Balling (Dec 18)
- Re: InterNIC "whois server <handle>" broke? Marc Slemko (Dec 18)
- Re: InterNIC "whois server <handle>" broke? Derek Balling (Dec 18)
- Re: InterNIC "whois server <handle>" broke? Phil Howard (Dec 18)
- Re: InterNIC "whois server <handle>" broke? Marc Slemko (Dec 18)
- Re: InterNIC "whois server <handle>" broke? Jeffrey Haas (Dec 18)
- Re: InterNIC "whois server <handle>" broke? Jeffrey Haas (Dec 18)
- Re: InterNIC "whois server <handle>" broke? John Todd (Dec 18)
- Re: InterNIC "whois server <handle>" broke? Phil Howard (Dec 18)
- Re: InterNIC "whois server <handle>" broke? Alex Bligh (Dec 18)
- Re: InterNIC "whois server <handle>" broke? Michael P. Lyle (Dec 18)
- Re: InterNIC "whois server <handle>" broke? Jeffrey Haas (Dec 18)
- Re: InterNIC "whois server <handle>" broke? Jeffrey Haas (Dec 22)
- Re: InterNIC "whois server <handle>" broke? Marc Slemko (Dec 18)
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- Re: [NIC-981207.1418] whois for 'server SERVER-HANDLE' not returning information? nicholas harteau (Dec 18)