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Re: whois broke again?

  • From: William Allen Simpson
  • Date: Sun Feb 20 12:31:42 2000 
"Roeland M.J. Meyer" wrote:
> 
> There has been plenty of complaints lodged. NameSecure happens to finally
> have port 43 whois service running, for the first time. I don't mean to
> sound like an apologist for NSI, but they've been having plenty of trouble
> with SRS. I leave it as a value judgement as to the appropriateness of
> rolling out code that doesn't pass the most basic of QA muster, and whose
> design and architecture is protected by the most stringent and arcane NDA
> that I've ever seen.
> 
That's odd, it's supposed to be an internet-draft.  Not that I've actually 
read it, but ....


> The point; there's plenty of mud to go around. It's about time that you guys
> got involved enough to fix it, instead of piss-and-moan.
>
That's right.  We have redundant DNS root servers, why do we have a single 
point of failure in the whois?  So, we need 5 volunteers to step up and 
be our chosen whois mirrors.

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