domain referrals [was: Deletion of German domains]

  Oli,

  the IS stuff looks *very* good. With some other domains (i.e. CH :-)
  there are still loose ends) Here's the RIPE objects:

> wripe -RT domain is

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domain:      is
descr:       Top level domain for Iceland
descr:       Internet Iceland - INTIS
[ ... ]
admin-c:     HJ18
tech-c:      MO33
zone-c:      MO33
[ ... ]
refer:       ripe whois.isnet.is
changed:     marius at isgate.is 19931123
changed:     marius at isgate.is 19970728
source:      RIPE

person:      Helgi Jonsson
[ ... ]
changed:     marius at isnet.is 20000218
source:      RIPE

person:      Marius Olafsson
[ ... ]
changed:     marius at isnet.is 20000218
source:      RIPE

  and here's the referred-to output:

> wripe -T domain is

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The object shown below is NOT in the RIPE database.
It has been obtained by querying a remote server:
(whois.isnet.is) at port 43.
To see the object stored in the RIPE database
use the -R flag in your query.


% Rights restricted by copyright. See http://www.isnet.is/whois/copyright.html
%
% Útgáfuréttur áskilinn. Sjá http://www.isnet.is/whois/utgafurettur.html

domain:      is
descr:       Top level domain for Iceland
descr:       Internet Iceland - INTIS
[ ... ]
changed:     marius at isgate.is 19931123
changed:     marius at isgate.is 19970728
source:      IS

person:      Helgi Jonsson
[ ... ]
changed:     hostmaster at isnet.is 20000323
source:      IS

person:      Marius Olafsson
[ ... ]
changed:     marius at isnet.is 19950201
changed:     hostmaster at isnet.is 20000323
source:      IS

  As the referral type is RIPE, even passing flags like -r to suppress
  recursion is working fine:
  
> wripe -rT domain is

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The object shown below is NOT in the RIPE database.
It has been obtained by querying a remote server:
(whois.isnet.is) at port 43.
To see the object stored in the RIPE database
use the -R flag in your query.


% Rights restricted by copyright. See
http://www.isnet.is/whois/copyright.html
%
% Útgáfuréttur áskilinn. Sjá http://www.isnet.is/whois/utgafurettur.html

domain:      is
descr:       Top level domain for Iceland
[ ... ]
changed:     marius at isgate.is 19931123
changed:     marius at isgate.is 19970728
source:      IS



%%% End of referred query result

  CH for example is working in principle, but the remote server still
  refuses to serve data for it's own TLD root ;-)
  
> wripe -T domain ch

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The object shown below is NOT in the RIPE database.
It has been obtained by querying a remote server:
(whois.nic.ch) at port 43.
To see the object stored in the RIPE database
use the -R flag in your query.

Malformed query string			<------------------------------

%%% End of referred query result

  The RIPE-DB object looks fine, though:
  
> wripe -rRT domain ch

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domain:      ch
descr:       Switzerland
admin-c:     MS219-RIPE
tech-c:      WH1101
zone-c:      WH1101
nserver:     domreg.nic.ch
nserver:     merapi.switch.ch
nserver:     ns1.ip-plus.net
nserver:     ns.eu.net
nserver:     ns.uu.net
nserver:     dns.princeton.edu
nserver:     ctina.ar
nserver:     ns.apnic.net
remarks:     Website: http://www.nic.ch/
remarks:     a complete list of the ch-subdomains can be found via
remarks:     ftp://ftp.switch.ch/registry/CH.domains
mnt-by:      CH-DOMREG
mnt-lower:   CH-DOMREG
refer:       SIMPLE whois.nic.ch
changed:     gottsponer at switch.ch 19981223
source:      RIPE

  It would be a nice project for the CENTR tech folks to check all the
  referred-to servers for those obvious things?!
  
  Wilfried.