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Hank Nussbacher
hank at ibm.net.il
Mon Nov 30 13:13:38 CET 1998
At 01:01 PM 11/30/98 +0100, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote: Yes, that may be all correct - from a techno standpoint. What I am stressing is the human engineering aspect. Up till now, thousands of hits are sent to the whois.ripe.net every month to determine whether a domain exists or not. Users have been doing this for years. Suddenly, the output is different and they do not realize it. I highly doubt that the human engineering aspect was discussed or analyzed to any extent in the DB WG. -Hank >Dear all, > >The implementation of the referral mechanism is a new feature of the latest >release of the RIPE DB software. > >The design of this feature was specified some time ago by Carol Orange and >Wilfried Woeber (please see http://www.ripe.net/meetings/ripe/ripe-27/pres/rout >e/referral/) and discussed in the RIPE db-wg mailing list (please see >http://www.ripe.net/mail-archives/db-wg/19970501-19970601/threads.html) > >According to this proposal the algorithm to be implemented is > >(extracted from the proposal): >*********** >Algorithm >--------- >If the following query is submitted to the RIPE database: > > whois [flags] xxx.yyy.zz > >the algorithm will work as follows: > >------- >NAME="xxx.yyy.zz" > >until (NAME = "") { > If object with domain = NAME found, > If object contains referral (see "Referral" below) > forward query (see "Forward" below) > Else > return object > Else > Strip(NAME) (xxx.yyy.zz -> yyy.zz, etc) >} > > >NOTES >----- >1. We move up the tree here, and return the next level answer >if present. If the query requests "tuintje.cwi.nl" (Piet, do you >mind?), they currently get "No entries found ...". In the new >mechanism, they would get: > >domain: cwi.nl >. >. >. >mnt-by: NL-DOMREG >changed: hostmaster at domain-registry.nl 19950227 >source: RIPE > >Moreover, if the object for cwi.nl contains a referral, the query >would be passed on to the specified server as explained below. > >2. The algorithm will be set off by any query which causes a search in >the domain object index. This means any query with "-T domain", or >any general query (no -T flag) with something that "looks like a >domain". >************* > >Currently and due to s small desynchronization within the RIPE NCC DB group >and the fact that the proposal was not clear about a particular point the >referred query is for the truncated object in the RIPE DB containing the refer >attribute. We want to modify this so that the query to the authoritative >server is for the user's initial query and not the result of the truncating >algorithm. This change will take place either today or tomorrow and a note >will be sent to the db-wg. > >As a side note I would like to stress that the RIPE Database is NOT the source >of authoritative data for domain objects (although we are happy to provide a >repository for TLD administrators). >This is UNLIKE the internic whose business is to sell names. > >The RIPE NCC is therefore acting according to users directives that were >discussed and agreed on an open way. > >We are happy to hear any comments about this or any other issues regarding the >DB software and will keep working to suggest and provide users with >functionality that will help them the most. > >Please send any comments to the RIPE mailing lists. > >Best regards, >Joao Damas >RIPE DB Group manager >RIPE NCC > > > NCC local-ir list Moderator <lir-mod at ripe.net> writes: > * > * I feel this is more appropriate to be discussed on the db-wg. > * > * Mirjam Kuehne > * RIPE NCC > * > * ------- Forwarded Message > * > * Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 19:21:13 +0200 > * To: <local-ir at ripe.net> > * From: Hank Nussbacher <hank at ibm.net.il> > * Subject: Ripe change to whois > * > * I may have missed it, but a serious *bad* change has occured to the whois > * interface. Previously, if I did a check on abcdef.co.il and abcdef did not > * exist, whois would return an error message. Now, whois returns the domain > * and role records for the next upper level domain - i.e. co.il or .il. Other > * examples: zzzz.ac.uk, zzzz.ac.at. > * > * How did I find out about this? I received 3 phone calls already in the past > * 24 hours from users in Israel stating that I personally am registered as > * owner of hundreds of domains. They state that being on the board of the > * ISOC-IL which oversees the registration, I have violated the rules (limit of > * 10 domains per person - other countries have similar restrictions). I have > * tried explaining to them that I am not the owner of these domains. If it > * was 1 user, I would assume they didn't read the entry correctly. But the > * fact that 3 totally different people have called me to ask whether I would > * sell certain domain names to them, I can only conclude that the RIPE change > * is not that successful. > * People have been used to getting an error message from RIPE, similar to the > * "No match" one gets from Internic. When they now get a valid response, they > * don't bother to check that the response is not for the domain they > * requested. There is no error message or error code. > * > * This needs to be rectified (and changes discussed in the future - ignore if > * it has been mentioned). > * > * - -Hank Nussbacher > * ISOC-IL board member > * > * > * > * > * ------- End of Forwarded Message > * > * > * > > >
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