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.
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
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.
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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
And the reason you would expect anything different from NSI would
_be_...?
Cheers,
-- jra
> 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.
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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
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
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.