North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: RFC 2142 (was Re: Suggestion: Add contact entry to whois)
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, J.D. Falk wrote: > On 02/26/99, Owen DeLong <[email protected]> wrote: > > OK, perhaps, then, we should consider two contacts: > Unfortunately, "we" is not the same body of people that can > actually make the changes to WHOIS. > Luckily, "we" don't have to -- we could just follow RFC 2142. > http://www.geektools.com/rfc/rfc2142.txt rfc2142 only deals with email addresses, what if the host is conducting a denial of service attack and you need to call someone. email addresses are rather less useful then. a quick whois and ring up is usually more effective in getting an attack shut down. -Dan
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