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Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell () dimension net>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:29:54 -0400 (EDT)
In article <Pine.BSD/.3.91.980909153738.7931A () crispy iconn net> you write:
According to David Holtzman of NSI (i asked him), the restrictions on whois are merely for technical reasons. I believe that he believes this, and from his point of view they have every right to filter/limit obnoxious or badly configured hosts/sites.
I have a call to arms. If we could get orginizations to mirror the whois data, and provide full, public access to it (via the current whois database) we could remove some of the dependency on NSI. After all, they don't run the only root, lots of other people run them as well...why should they run the only whois server? If we could get some geograpically distributed and have a whois-servers.net like root-servers.net to find them all that would be highly useful. It would distribute the load and make whois more reliable since there would be multiple servers. The mirrors could also develop advanced interfaces on their own (web/e-mail, better searching, whatever) as value adds. I'd even support fees for the value adds as long as the basic "whois" method remained free. Thoughts? -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell () dimension net Network Engineer (CCIE #3440) - Dimension Enterprises 1-703-709-7500, fax, 1-703-709-7699
Current thread:
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois, (continued)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois David H. Holtzman (Sep 03)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Karl Denninger (Sep 03)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Steven J. Sobol (Sep 03)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Dean Anderson (Sep 03)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Sean Donelan (Sep 03)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Eric Germann (Sep 03)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Steven J. Sobol (Sep 03)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Dean Robb (Sep 04)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Steven J. Sobol (Sep 08)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Bill Becker (Sep 09)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Leo Bicknell (Sep 09)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Dean Robb (Sep 10)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Mark Borchers (Sep 10)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois David H. Holtzman (Sep 03)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Leo Bicknell (Sep 09)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Leo Bicknell (Sep 09)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Chris Cappuccio (Sep 10)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Leo Bicknell (Sep 10)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Leo Bicknell (Sep 10)