InterNIC oddities

Thu Jul 29 04:47:54 UTC 1999

Paulk said, four months ago, that NSI had asked him to stop serving
COM/NET/ORG while the SRS beta test was running.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Daniel Senie
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 8:27 PM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: InterNIC oddities
>
>
>
> The WHOIS database seems to be updated at random intervals. Today, it
> never did get updated. The data is more than 24 hours stale
> in the WHOIS
> database, and the "last updated" time is being reported as yesterday,
> mid-morning. The name servers do appear to be up-to-date, though.
>
> The F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET machine has an out-of-date com. zone. The other
> name servers seem to be up-to-date, and the F server is OK for the net
> and org domains, and the root domain. Only the com TLD is out
> of date (5
> days old).
>
> On a positive note, the domain name modification forms appear
> to be back
> from the dead.
>
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> Daniel Senie                                        dts at senie.com
> Amaranth Networks Inc.            http://www.amaranthnetworks.com
>