Just tried to help someone track a spammer, and found out the 'nic
database has been in better shape:
whois sc386
[rs.internic.net]
Sorry, you shouldn't see this record.
whois ccnet.com
[rs.internic.net]
[No name] (ID?) NE14
COM
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> It is statements like these (which have appeared with some regularity
> in the past) that make me believe that IAHC/iPOC have in mind a single
> monolithic database for all TLDs...
Do you mean gTLDs? I never thought that IHAC/iPOC was planning to have
the database deal with the country-code-based TLDs. Did I miss something?
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Some people can continue to play games. Most
peple involved in the Registry Industry have moved
beyond this and are now deploying real servers on
real networks.
In my opinion, there is still a lot of room on the
"Root 64" chessboard. This board is 8 by 8 and
has room for 8 Root Name Server Confederations,
each with 8 Root Name Servers.
At the moment, there are only 5 Root Name
Server Confederations actively in use:
AlterNIC
eDNS
InterNIC (Legacy)
name.space
NSI/ISI
Imagine that the board can be arranged so that
the servers that are "nearest" to each other are
near each other on the board. If you pick any
square on the board, it has exactly 8 neighbors
assuming the board wraps at the edges and is
really mapped to a sphere.
Because of technical limits of the current "named"
technology used by many companies, people are
forced to select only one Root Name Server
Confederation. This is like saying that they must
select all of the servers in one row of the Root 64
board. More modern versions of the "named"
software will be able to work around this limit.
In the future, an ISP will be able to pick a
square on the board that represents the best
location for that ISP from a connectivity point
of view. When the ISP does that, the surrounding
collection of Root Name Servers will form that
ISPs confederation.
In order to do this in the future, it is important
to have all of the Root Name Server Confederations
"in synch". To be in synch, the Root Name Servers
should provide referrals for the same collection of
TLDs and provide the same set of referrals to the
TLD Name Servers that support that TLD.
If people are really interested in working together
there are three easy steps to meet the "Root 64
Challenge".
1. Develop a MERGED list of ALL of the Top Level
Domains that are used any where in the world by
any TLD Registry and limit the list to 2,048 names.
2. Locate the TLD Name Servers that service
each Top Level Domain.
3. Make sure that all recognized Root Name
Servers support the top 2,048 TLDs and provide
referrals to the proper TLD Name Servers.
4. Deploy 8 Root Name Server Confederations
of 8 servers each and figure out the optimal
arrangement on an 8 by 8 grid based on network
connections.
5. Convene the various Root Name Server
Confederations to represent the 64 Root Name
Servers on the board. There are 5 now, and room
for 3 more. Encourage this convention to bring
the 64 servers into "synch".
These are real steps that will result in working
systems. If the Root 64 Challenge is met, then
people everywhere will have a coherent Internet
and many choices on Top Level Domain Names
and Root Name Server Confederations to use
for support.
Think global and act local...
--
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
http://www.Unir.Corp
Check out...http://Register.A.Mall
whois sprint.net
[No name] (Poor Richard's Publishing)
RW535
3
D
To see this organization record with registered members, repeat the
command
with a star ('*') before the name; or, use '%' to show JUST the registered
members.
The InterNIC Registration Services Host contains ONLY Internet Information
(Networks, ASN's, Domains, and POC's).
Please use the whois server at nic.ddn.mil for MILNET Information.
Hola, All.
After scanning through some spew from one of our nameservers,
I noticed a _lot_ of these:
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May 7 17:05:06 ns1 named[4332]: bad referral (net !< wow.net)
May 7 17:05:06 ns1 last message repeated 8 times
May 7 17:05:06 ns1 named[4332]: unrelated additional info 'a.root-servers.net'
type A from [196.3.138.30].53
May 7 17:05:06 ns1 named[4332]: unrelated additional info 'b.root-servers.net'
type A from [196.3.138.30].53
[ ...[b-h]... ]
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So, I decide to do a whois...
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$ whois wow.net
[No name] (ID?)
³
D
The InterNIC Registration Services Host contains ONLY Internet Information
[ ... ]
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Odd. I decide to see if the database is working at all.
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$ whois eden.net
Sorry, you shouldn't see this record.
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Shouldn't I? Hrm..
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$ whois internic.net
260 Franklin Street
Boston, MA 02110
US (ID?)
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Good to know they are on the ball in this time of potential competition.
Cheers,
-Matt
The IAHC's proposal can be found at
"http://www.iahc.org/draft-iahc-recommend-00.html". Any cutomers
(including yourself) will need to contact one of the new registrars to get
a domain registered (similar to how you go to InteRNIC for .com domains.)
unless you are a registrar yourself. The requirements for becoming
elligible to be a registrar are also listed in that document.
Please note that the domains are not scheduled to be available for over a
year from now.
Information about the IAHC, its procedures, and its recommendations, as
well as endorsing parties can be found at "http://www.iahc.org/".
Stephen
At 08:34 07 05 97 -0700, Geoff White wrote:
>> On Wed, 7 May 1997, Cameo Wood wrote:
>> > Citing "consistent and universal criticism," the IAHC announced that any
>> > service meeting financial and technical qualifications will be eligible
>> > to become a registrar. No lottery will be held.
>Are these requirements listed anywhere?
>I've got customers chomping at the bit to get at these new domains.
>I just need to know how to register these domains.
Vadim wrote:
> Five years ago, the idea of a telco doing Internet was so ridiculous that
> my friends laughed at me. Now, try to find telco which doesn't have an
> Internet service.
It's easy if you look at telephone cooperatives and other small telcos. In
any case, there are alot of things that looked ridiculous to the telcos
five years ago. Such things as selling customers dedicated DS-3s looked
ridiculous to many of them (even today, some telcos can't/won't do this).
xDSL and ISDN were (and still are) pretty funny to some telcos.
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