Quoting Deron Meranda <deron.meranda@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:45:30 > Okay, that is funny. Maybe their domain name is meant to be taken > literally? Who knows, maybe ;-) > However the NS records are on sonic.net, which is supposedly their > hosting ISP. I can't currently find any delegation or other records to > the > ipwhois subdomain (even an SOA record); so perhaps they are already > in the process of fixing it?? > > I think maybe they should re-evaluate their ISP? Actually, seems that they discontinued their ipwhois database. And instead of returning NXDOMAIN for queries, they did this stupidity in hope that it will have effect of people stopping using it. In reality, they are mostly filling logs of DNS servers administered by people who had nothing to do with original queries (and will most likely simply ignore those entries in log files since they have nothing to do with them), and most of automated software that was using it (such as SpamAssassin) treats SERVFAIL response just the same as NXDOMAIN response (so end user who installed SpamAssassin or similar software isn't going to notice it at all). Basically, they did something plain stupid (even in case they are not violating any RFCs). -- Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@xxxxxx> Pollard Banknote Limited Systems Administrator 1499 Buffalo Place Tel: (204) 474-2323 ext 276 Winnipeg, MB R3T 1L7
