Howdy,
Anybody else notice that the NIC's database hasn't been refreshed
in a while? Some customers called me today wondering why their changes
weren't working yet, and I noticed that the last update happened over 48
hours ago.
blakew(4)[~]> whois internic.net
Database last updated on 14-Jul-98 08:32:30 EDT
blakew(5)[~]> whois nanog.org
Database last updated on 14-Jul-98 08:32:30 EDT
Blake Willis
CAIS Network Engineering
Despite whois being old, the root zones are up to date.
New domains are showing up there but not in whois.
--Ben Kirkpatrick, ELI Data Eng.
Its all luck of the draw. whois.internic.net seems to have at least 2
different backend databases running. One reports internic.net was last
updated 14-Jul-98 and the other 15-Jul-98. I seem to remember them
moving things around the other day, maybe they just haven't gotten it all
sorted yet, imagine that.
Sam Hayes Merritt, III
Last night I was checking on a domain, and doing a whois on it 10 times
reported 2 different sets of information. It was quite interesting. I
was doing this between 8-9pm CST. I thought it was quite interesting.
Joe Shaw - jshaw@insync.net
NetAdmin - Insync Internet Services