Has anyone else been having problems modifying domain templates, etc using PGP authentication at the Internic? I called today because I've been having problems for a week and was told that Network Solutions is having difficulties with their PGP keyserver. No ETA on when it's going to be fixed. I'm just wondering if this is the truth or if the tech is just not willing to help me with my domain issues.
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Jeff Frost wrote:
Has anyone else been having problems modifying domain templates, etc using PGP authentication at the Internic? I called today because I've been having problems for a week and was told that Network Solutions is having difficulties with their PGP keyserver. No ETA on when it's going to be fixed. I'm just wondering if this is the truth or if the tech is just not willing to help me with my domain issues.
AFAIK, it has never worked properly. I'm sure some people have made it work well enough to suit certain needs if you are very careful what you do. I think most people have given up on it until NSI wakes up, which doesn't look like it will happen any time soon.
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 03:54:38PM -0800, Jeff Frost wrote:
Has anyone else been having problems modifying domain templates, etc using PGP authentication at the Internic? I called today because I've been having problems for a week and was told that Network Solutions is having difficulties with their PGP keyserver. No ETA on when it's going to be fixed. I'm just wondering if this is the truth or if the tech is just not willing to help me with my domain issues.
PGP authentication hasn't worked in at least 4 months.. it may have been broken before that, but I didn't have any need to send an update. I've mailed the Inter.. er, Network Solutions people about it and the general impression I get is, "Thanks for your input. Now watch how fast I can ignore you." The guard-talk list they run (do they still run it since they hijacked internic.net into networksolutions.com?) used to be a good place to post PGP problems, but nowadays most everyone on the list has given up. David -- David Shaw | dshaw@jabberwocky.com | WWW http://www.jabberwocky.com/ +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." - Jeremy S. Anderson
On 03/30/99, Jeff Frost <batalion@apocalypse.org> wrote:
Has anyone else been having problems modifying domain templates, etc using PGP authentication at the Internic? I called today because I've been having problems for a week and was told that Network Solutions is having difficulties with their PGP keyserver. No ETA on when it's going to be fixed. I'm just wondering if this is the truth or if the tech is just not willing to help me with my domain issues.
It's been nonfunctional (at least according to NSI) for some time now, probably more than a year, though they may have had it functional for short periods therein. My personal method of getting through that is to update my key every week or so (no, really), and it works more often than it doesn't...but maybe I'm just lucky. ---------========== J.D. Falk <jdfalk@cybernothing.org> =========--------- | "UNIX is the answer, | | but only if you phrase the question very carefully." | | -- Jonathan H N Chin | ----========== http://www.cybernothing.org/jdfalk/home.html ==========----
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 05:48:18PM -0800, J.D. Falk wrote:
On 03/30/99, Jeff Frost <batalion@apocalypse.org> wrote:
Has anyone else been having problems modifying domain templates, etc using PGP authentication at the Internic? I called today because I've been having problems for a week and was told that Network Solutions is having difficulties with their PGP keyserver. No ETA on when it's going to be fixed. I'm just wondering if this is the truth or if the tech is just not willing to help me with my domain issues.
It's been nonfunctional (at least according to NSI) for some time now, probably more than a year, though they may have had it functional for short periods therein.
I wasn't aware that NSI had announced it was nonfunctional. If they officially know that it's down, whyintheheck do they still promote it on their web site? Call me crazy, but p romoting a service that they know is broken (and has been broken for months) and has no particular ETA to be fixed seems like a stupid thing to do. So Guardian is dead, and now there are going to be a lot more registrations like 'mybigstiffy.com' (try a whois on it), and a lot more people registering all sorts of domains and pointing them to random nameservers. Oh joy, what a wonderful leap *backwards* this all is. David -- David Shaw | dshaw@jabberwocky.com | WWW http://www.jabberwocky.com/ +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." - Jeremy S. Anderson
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 10:03:44PM -0500, David Shaw wrote:
Call me crazy, but p romoting a service that they know is broken (and has been broken for months) and has no particular ETA to be fixed seems like a stupid thing to do.
And the reason you would expect anything different from NSI would _be_...? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Buy copies of The New Hackers Dictionary. The Suncoast Freenet Give them to all your friends. Tampa Bay, Florida http://www.ccil.org/jargon/ +1 813 790 7592
On 03/30/99, David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com> wrote:
It's been nonfunctional (at least according to NSI) for some time now, probably more than a year, though they may have had it functional for short periods therein.
I wasn't aware that NSI had announced it was nonfunctional. If they officially know that it's down, whyintheheck do they still promote it on their web site?
I don't think it's ever been officially announced as down, but they'd admit there were problems if you called. ---------========== J.D. Falk <jdfalk@cybernothing.org> =========--------- | All standard disclaimers apply, and then some. | ----========== http://www.cybernothing.org/jdfalk/home.html ==========----
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 07:31:24PM -0800, J.D. Falk wrote:
I don't think it's ever been officially announced as down, but they'd admit there were problems if you called.
If they ever did, you know, that might affect their stock price. Can't do that. Not with the money grubbing higher-ups ;) I've found that the way that mutt supports pgp, doesn't work right with their template processing stuff, so you have to pgp -sa the file then e-mail it in for it to work. They've not lost my key (that i'm aware of), and only returned templates I sent with the mutt pgp stuff, but not with the ELM2.4 ME+ (that works correctly). - jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 10:49:35PM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote:
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 07:31:24PM -0800, J.D. Falk wrote:
I don't think it's ever been officially announced as down, but they'd admit there were problems if you called.
If they ever did, you know, that might affect their stock price. Can't do that. Not with the money grubbing higher-ups ;)
I've found that the way that mutt supports pgp, doesn't work right with their template processing stuff, so you have to pgp -sa the file then e-mail it in for it to work. They've not lost my key (that i'm aware of), and only returned templates I sent with the mutt pgp stuff, but not with the ELM2.4 ME+ (that works correctly).
I have gone to silly lengths to ensure that I am giving them a valid signature. Once I signed the template, and then verified the signature. I then copied it to another machine with a different PGP version and re-verified the signature. Then I mailed it to myself off-site and verified the signature on the remote system to ensure the mail system wasn't breaking something. Finally, I mailed it to hostmaster@internic.net and cc'd myself on and off-site. Both copies I got back verified fine. The Internic took a few days and then bounced it because they couldn't verify the signature. David -- David Shaw | dshaw@jabberwocky.com | WWW http://www.jabberwocky.com/ +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." - Jeremy S. Anderson
At 11:01 AM 3/31/99 , David Shaw wrote:
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 10:49:35PM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote:
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 07:31:24PM -0800, J.D. Falk wrote:
I don't think it's ever been officially announced as down, but they'd admit there were problems if you called.
If they ever did, you know, that might affect their stock price. Can't do that. Not with the money grubbing higher-ups ;)
I've found that the way that mutt supports pgp, doesn't work right with their template processing stuff, so you have to pgp -sa the file then e-mail it in for it to work. They've not lost my key (that i'm aware of), and only returned templates I sent with the mutt pgp stuff, but not with the ELM2.4 ME+ (that works correctly).
I have gone to silly lengths to ensure that I am giving them a valid signature. Once I signed the template, and then verified the signature. I then copied it to another machine with a different PGP version and re-verified the signature. Then I mailed it to myself off-site and verified the signature on the remote system to ensure the mail system wasn't breaking something. Finally, I mailed it to hostmaster@internic.net and cc'd myself on and off-site. Both copies I got back verified fine. The Internic took a few days and then bounced it because they couldn't verify the signature.
heheh...this is what I did almost to the letter. I know for a fact that there's nothing wrong with my signature and I am able to get my key from their keyserver, so I just don't know what the problem could be. I'm still waiting for my faxed in authorization letter to let my contact template changes go through (so I can use crypt-pw). Meanwhile, I'm stuck without being able to change any zones. Love that customer service. ----- Jeff Frost Vice President, Technology <jeff@netnoir.com> NetNoir, Inc.
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