On 15 May 1998, Paul Vixie wrote:
We cannot give you access to our database for all records, other than what is in our whois database, is confidential and not available to the public.
Network Solutions has never actually asked me to stop allowing full outbound zone transfers
Thanks to Paul, I can now do the scans of the com, net and org domains and add to my list of projects "cleaning up lame delegations". It's unfortunate that NSI wants to control access to this data. Doing a zone transfer rather than ftping a gzipped file wasted huge amounts of bandwith...both mine and Pauls. $ gzip -l com.zone.gz compressed uncompr. ratio uncompressed_name 47530626 209099660 77.2% com.zone ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon Lewis <jlewis@fdt.net> | http://noagent.com/?jl1 for cheap Network Administrator | life insurance over the net. Florida Digital Turnpike | ______http://inorganic5.fdt.net/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key____