-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I was doing some maintanace on some of my domains a few days back and decided to update my Internic contact information. Low and behold I found that the company field in the whois query was wrong. I did a whois on a few other internic handles I know and it looks as if they are wrong as well. I thought at first that maybe someone changed my Internic contact registration (which is why I'm sending my PGP key to them right now), but the last update time is months ago, and I'm sure I would have noticed it before now. So did Internic's whois server break? Or did their registery get corrupt? - -- Jordan Mendelson : www.wserv.com/~jordy Web Services, Inc. : www.wserv.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMtfN2hA7rx9toVxZAQFz+AP8Cy2WMeemqq7utDt2OIFWEI/ZLSs+VlRI JZsRGPQjHcrz2yHSXeWvg24SKBRlgy2O7OTRMclZaEAmsOTfA4fIAoR5cT5uXcyK Oo7fz0Xwt+sXvGrc4SFjiJyHMBAc71ohakhFVDafqyWipjb+04HCV7VN5zk7TgKV xsVnGzgx+SA= =tuPj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Jordy, You are not alone. Dallas is having some trouble with his dna.org domain. We are both about to give up trying to get them to repair it as well. Your email prompted me to check my handle and that too has been corrupted. Looks like March 18 may have been a bad day for the Internic. I work for the Northeast Regional Data Center at UF, not Vega Solutions... dp@nersp $ whois dp173 Pokorney, Dave (DP173) dp@UFL.EDU Vega Solutions Rm.112 SSRB, University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 352-392-2061 Record last updated on 18-Mar-96. Let us know how you manage to convince them to repair it. good luck, I'm sure the University of Florida is pleased to hear that Vega Solutions is doing business on their premis. Guess I need to submit another update request for my own handle this time. Past requests (before dna.org corruption) have been handled without trouble sigh, -d -- On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, jordy wrote:
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I was doing some maintanace on some of my domains a few days back and decided to update my Internic contact information. Low and behold I found that the company field in the whois query was wrong. I did a whois on a few other internic handles I know and it looks as if they are wrong as well.
I thought at first that maybe someone changed my Internic contact registration (which is why I'm sending my PGP key to them right now), but the last update time is months ago, and I'm sure I would have noticed it before now.
So did Internic's whois server break? Or did their registery get corrupt?
- -- Jordan Mendelson : www.wserv.com/~jordy Web Services, Inc. : www.wserv.com
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I was doing some maintanace on some of my domains a few days back and decided to update my Internic contact information. Low and behold I found that the company field in the whois query was wrong. I did a whois on a few other internic handles I know and it looks as if they are wrong as well.
I thought at first that maybe someone changed my Internic contact registration (which is why I'm sending my PGP key to them right now), but the last update time is months ago, and I'm sure I would have noticed it before now.
So did Internic's whois server break? Or did their registery get corrupt?
Looks like the registry is corrupt; My contact information is corrupt now as well, as is my girlfriend's; we've both gotten assigned to Lobo Net, rather than our proper locations. I looked up JM2789, but it's garbled in a different manner. I wonder if everyone associated with a particular domain is garbled in the same way? Anyhow, this really bites. If the InterNIC wants to charge for services, they really MUST take better care of the data.
- -- Jordan Mendelson : www.wserv.com/~jordy Web Services, Inc. : www.wserv.com
Matt Petach (MP59, also check BL223 for another data point) NetFlight Consulting Services
% > So did Internic's whois server break? Or did their registery get corrupt? % % Looks like the registry is corrupt; My contact information is corrupt % now as well, as is my girlfriend's; we've both gotten assigned to % Lobo Net, rather than our proper locations. I looked up JM2789, but % it's garbled in a different manner. I wonder if everyone associated % with a particular domain is garbled in the same way? % % Anyhow, this really bites. If the InterNIC wants to charge for % services, they really MUST take better care of the data. I seem to remember a little while back something that happened -- the InterNIC had a data corruption "along the wire" (their terms, not mine). They claimed that the registry data itself had not been corrupted. The symptoms: Totally bogus information in WHOIS requests for the particular day, fixed by around 6pm or so CDT, as I recall. I wonder if the problems that certain entities have been experiencing relate to this "along the wire" data corruption the NIC mentioned didn't cause any problems? /tcb -- Timothy Brown, Web Architect/Network Engineer, ANET-STL Affiliation given for identification, not representation. http://www.anet-stl.com/~tbrown/
Yup, looks screwed up. My company info is wrong as well. Dirk On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Matthew Petach wrote:
I was doing some maintanace on some of my domains a few days back and decided to update my Internic contact information. Low and behold I found that the company field in the whois query was wrong. I did a whois on a few other internic handles I know and it looks as if they are wrong as well.
I thought at first that maybe someone changed my Internic contact registration (which is why I'm sending my PGP key to them right now), but the last update time is months ago, and I'm sure I would have noticed it before now.
So did Internic's whois server break? Or did their registery get corrupt?
Looks like the registry is corrupt; My contact information is corrupt now as well, as is my girlfriend's; we've both gotten assigned to Lobo Net, rather than our proper locations. I looked up JM2789, but it's garbled in a different manner. I wonder if everyone associated with a particular domain is garbled in the same way?
Anyhow, this really bites. If the InterNIC wants to charge for services, they really MUST take better care of the data.
- -- Jordan Mendelson : www.wserv.com/~jordy Web Services, Inc. : www.wserv.com
Matt Petach (MP59, also check BL223 for another data point) NetFlight Consulting Services
Although I like being from Sun Microsystems now, it would be nice to fix the problem.. Has anyone heard if this problem is currently being addressed and if so, when it will be solved? -BR
I see this and have noticed in the change logs that the whois dumper program was recently updated. I've backed out the change and the old info will return by 6:00AM or so tomorrow. (Ingres database looks ok but obviously whois is not). Thanks, Mark
Although I like being from Sun Microsystems now, it would be nice to fix the problem.. Has anyone heard if this problem is currently being addressed and if so, when it will be solved?
-- Mark Kosters markk@internic.net +1 703 742 4795 InterNIC Registration Services PGP Key fingerprint = 1A 2A 92 F8 8E D3 47 F9 15 65 80 87 68 13 F6 48
At 5:23 PM -0800 1/11/97, Mark Kosters wrote:
I see this and have noticed in the change logs that the whois dumper program was recently updated. I've backed out the change and the old info will return by 6:00AM or so tomorrow.
Mark, This is appears to be a very, very large-scale problem. While it is good that you have detected the problem and are attempting to reverse it, there are some questions that need answering: 1. Why did the problem go undetected for so long? Normal and reasonable quality assurance procedures should detect an error on this scale. Is there ANY testing of changes done either (or both) before and after they are instituted? 2. Why is the reversal taking so long to institute, on the order of 12 hours or more? Why is it not being done immediately? 3. It is normal for service organizations to credit their customers for when the provider makes serious errors. d/ -------------------- Dave Crocker +1 408 246 8253 Brandenburg Consulting fax: +1 408 249 6205 675 Spruce Dr. dcrocker@brandenburg.com Sunnyvale CA 94086 USA http://www.brandenburg.com Internet Mail Consortium http://www.imc.org, info@imc.org
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Timothy Brown