Re: Contact handles disappearing mysteriously from the whois database!
At 07:34 PM 4/28/99 -0400, you wrote:
At 04:27 PM 4/28/1999 -0400, Dean Robb wrote:
Would it be productive at all to point out that NSI did, in fact, deploy buggy WhoIs software without testing in the first place.
Possibly if it were true it would be productive. It hasn't been confirmed that they didn't test, and I doubt they wouldn't test. But someone already pointed out that testing can reveal only the existance of a bug, not the non-existance. All we can say from our perspective is that the testing missed this bug, which is unfortunate.
As a pretty-experienced beta tester myself, I can say with some authority that it'd be pretty hard to miss the fact that over half the data provided in a WhoIs lookup is missing during any testing procudure worthy of the name. IF it was tested, everyone involved should be in the unemployment line because they are too incompetent for words. This isn't some obscure incompatibility, this is the damn software not doing a significant portion of it's job! It's like a 3D game that can't use Direct3D, or a database program that can't read the database (hey, isn't that what's happening!?!). To use your argument: "testing can only reveal the existance of a bug...". So why didn't testing reveal the existance of this major a bug? "Let there be light!"...and God invented Thomas Edison. Dean Robb Owner, PC-EASY (757) 495-EASY [3279] On-site computer repair, upgrades and consultations Lead SimOps columnist/reviewer on http://WWW.TheGamers.Net
Registrant: EnterZone.Net (ENTERZONE2-DOM) 6227 Headley Road Gahanna, OH 43230 US Domain Name: ENTERZONE.NET Administrative Contact: Fraizer, John (JF1998) John.Fraizer@ENTERZONE.NET +1 614 316-2708 (FAX) --------------- Technical Contact, Zone Contact, Billing Contact: Network Operations Center (NOC179-ORG) noc@ENTERZONE.NET +1 614 316-2708 Fax- - o=U,on Record last updated on 12-Mar-99. Record created on 09-May-97. Database last updated on 28-Apr-99 12:45:01 EDT. Hey! Look! They actually decided to un-orphan the domain. Strange that they would take it upon themselves to change the billing contact for me. (It SHOULD be NOC99-ORG) How nice of them. I'm also wondering (and have been for months) how many other people had noise injected into their NIC handles. Notice the following two: Registration Services Account (NOC99-ORG) hostmaster@ENTERZONE.NET EnterZone.Net Network Operations Center 6227 Headley Road Gahanna, OH 43230 US +1 614 316-2708 Fax- - - o=U,onHo=qT Network Operations Center (NOC179-ORG) noc@ENTERZONE.NET EnterZone.Net Network Operations Center 6227 Headley Road Gahanna, OH 43230 US +1 614 316-2708 Fax- - o=U,on I have been going back and forth for months with them over this. For some reason, I don't note any noise in or the absence of any NIC handles that have anything to do with NetSOL.
IF it was tested, everyone involved should be in the unemployment line because they are too incompetent for words. This isn't some obscure incompatibility, this is the damn software not doing a significant portion of it's job! It's like a 3D game that can't use Direct3D, or a database program that can't read the database (hey, isn't that what's happening!?!).
I stand fast on my position of testing precision thermonuclear devices in Herndon, VA. I don't think it's just incompetence. It is flat-out greed. Why employ competent staff when you can use your profits to finance an IPO? It is just sickening.
To use your argument: "testing can only reveal the existance of a bug...". So why didn't testing reveal the existance of this major a bug?
They were all too busy watching their stock price on eTrade to bother with any REAL testing. Perceived Testing ----------------- 1) Throw spaghetti on flat-bed scanner. 2) Scan spaghetti with OCR software. 3) Save captured text. 4) Type "make" 5) Amazement that it compiled. 6) overwrite old database software with new database software while buddy throws tape backups in microwave on HIGH for 45mins. 7) Wait for phone to ring. -- 30 seconds pass with no phone call -- 8) Declare code perfect. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ML.ORG is gone. Check out http://www.EZ-IP.Net - It's *FREE* ------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your *FREE* Parked Domain account at http://www.EZ-Hosting.Com ------------------------------------------------------------------ John Fraizer | __ _ | The System Administrator | / / (_)__ __ ____ __ | The choice mailto:John.Fraizer@EnterZone.Net | / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / | of a GNU http://www.EnterZone.Net/ | /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ | Generation PGP Key fingerprint = 7DB6 1CA2 DAA6 43DA 3AAF 44CD 258C 3D7E B425 81A8
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