On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 12:54 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 13:52:31 +0000, > Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > How refreshing to see someone *wanting* to provide appropriate contact > > information in their whois entry, when the world and his dog seems to be > > heading the other way and trying to hide their contact details, citing > > privacy reasons. > Thanks...I'm glad somebody has a different opinion than my ISP ;-) > Providing contact information for IP addresses is different than for domain > names. It is common these days for the domain name holders to not be useful > techincal contacts, as the names often point to virtual web hosts managed > by somebody else. For those people have contact information in whois just > results in harrassment without really being useful for people needing to > solve network problems. For their purposes they can provide any contact > information they think will be useful on their web pages. > I agree. But I am a small business. Being a IT hobbyist, I'm trying to build my online IT setup myself...got in Linux & open source few years ago and have never looked back. Only issue is that have never setup a live server on the internet before, so wanted to do things right as far as listing of records/DNS lookups etc. is concerned. And with advise from mailing lists, I have somehow managed to do whatever I wanted be it, postgresql, intranet, internal mail-servers and I'm sure I will do this right too. After all, with thousands of willing people at one's back how can one fail? Anyhow, since I will be the technical contact for my IPs, I want a proper whois entry for my organization, that projects like dshield.org can use, if people face problems from my network. I would like to thank all the open source community for the wonderful & amazing job you guys are doing. Now...if you are bored with this long speech, please get to your keyboard and tell me what to do ;-) With regards. Sanjay.
