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-----Original Message----- From: Leo Bicknell <[email protected]> Newsgroups: maillist.nanog To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, September 09, 1998 4:53 PM Subject: Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois >In article <Pine.BSD/[email protected]> 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? > As far as I know, the rwhois interface is more oriented toward the approach that you propose. You can walk the rwhois protocol thru a query or two via a simple telnet interface. The network of rwhois servers transfer complete zones. I think the original idea was to make it more like the DNS, only with contact information. Here is a random query about dimension.net. Note the minus sign to indicate commands. The "-holdconnect on" command keeps the link open for multiple queries. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out from the rwhois protocol how to transfer a large number of entries. Note, there are 5,532,210 "objects". $ telnet rwhois.internic.net 4321 Trying 198.41.1.6... Connected to root.rwhois.net. Escape character is '^]'. %rwhois V-1.5:003eff:00 root.rwhois.net (by Network Solutions, Inc. V-1.5.2rri-d l) -status %status limit:20 %status holdconnect:OFF %status forward:OFF %status objects:5532210 %status display:DUMP %status contact:[email protected] %ok -holdconnect on %ok dimension.net domain:Class-Name:domain domain:Auth-Area:net domain:ID:DIMENSION2-DOM.net domain:Handle:DIMENSION2-DOM domain:Domain-Name:DIMENSION.NET domain:Org-Name:Dimension Enterprises domain:Street-Address:1039 Sterling Rd, Suite 201 domain:City:Herndon domain:State:VA domain:Postal-Code:22170 domain:Country-Code:US domain:Server;I:GIZMO2-HST.NET domain:Server;I:USSEN-HST.ORG domain:Server;I:PUMA12-HST.COM domain:Admin-Contact;I:FM136.NET domain:Tech-Contact;I:JTB2.NET domain:Billing-Contact;I:FM136.NET domain:Created:19950817050000000 domain:Updated:19970502190154000 %ok %ok FM136.NET contact:Class-Name:contact contact:Auth-Area:net contact:ID:FM136.net contact:Handle:FM136 contact:First-Name:Fitzgerald contact:Last-Name:Michael contact:Name:Michael, Fitzgerald contact:Type:I contact:Email:[email protected] contact:Phone:703-709-7699 contact:Org-Name:Dimension Enterprises contact:Street-Address:1039 Sterling Rd, Suite 201 contact:City:Herndon contact:State:VA contact:Postal-Code:22170 contact:Country-Code:US contact:Created:19950817123945000 contact:Updated:19960221135609000 %ok @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Jim Fleming Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.com End-2-End: VPC(Java)[email protected]<IPv8>[email protected](Java)VPC http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt http://www.ddj.com/index/author/idx10133.htm
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