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InterNIC Blowing Up (again)
Active writes "Internic has a potentially major bug on it's hands: thousands of domains are showing up as not registered, from Microsoft.com to ESPN.com. Even slashdot.org and linux.com are showing up as not registered. I've tested it out and it let me register news.com and others. Many domains are showed up as registered. Apple.com, for example, is correct."
Maybe I could mirror linux.com with it...
I just tested this and did not notice any strange behaviour. Microsoft and espn both showed up as registered as did every other site I tried.
i wonder who gets to stay up late tonight and fix that
mcj@if:~> date
Sun Mar 14 09:49:18 CST 1999
mcj@if:~> whois internic.net
No match for "INTERNIC.NET".
The InterNIC Registration Services database contains ONLY
non-military and non-US Government Domains and contacts.
Other associated whois servers:
[...]
This domain would be kind of cool to have... (:
And I call front seat, too. Don't make me tell mom.
Naaah ... I already snagged it.
Hehe...
Name: microsoft.com
Addresses: 207.46.130.14, 207.46.130.149, 207.46.130.150, 207.46.131.13
207.46.131.15, 207.46.131.137
Microsoft Corporation (MICROSOFT-DOM) MICROSOFT.COM
What type of crack are you people smoking?
Yesterday trying to connect to altavista i get
the hotmail pages...
test 1 2 3
Whois Query Results
- --------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------
No match for "WWW.SUN.COM".
The InterNIC Registration Services database contains ONLY
non-military and non-US Government Domains and contacts.
sunday, 12:04 eastern time...
No match for "MICROSOFT.COM".
The InterNIC Registration Services database contains ONLY
non-military and non-US Government Domains and contacts.
Other associated whois servers:
American Registry for Internet Numbers - whois.arin.net
European IP Address Allocations - whois.ripe.net
Asia Pacific IP Address Allocations - whois.apnic.net
US Military - whois.nic.mil
US Government - whois.nic.gov
yup, they just let me register for internic.net
and it seems like it's intermittent like you said.
wow
Why stop at microsoft.com?
No match for "LINUX.COM".
The InterNIC Registration Services database contains ONLY
non-military and non-US Government Domains and contacts.
Other associated whois servers:
American Registry for Internet Numbers - whois.arin.net
European IP Address Allocations - whois.ripe.net
Asia Pacific IP Address Allocations - whois.apnic.net
US Military - whois.nic.mil
US Government - whois.nic.gov
Maybe this will cause a proper method for managing
domain names to be researched an implemented.
Internic has been milking this monopoly
over the names for all it's worth and then some.
They obviously can't handle the responsibility,
so hopefully it will be game over for them.
If were lucky they won't "lose" all of the
domain names as a parting shot to the world.
People with "payment issues" should be nervous though.
ETA is 16:00 - 17:00 US/Eastern time.
I just tried my own domain and it said it was unregistered.
I couldn't telnet to whois.internic.net last night to verify that my domain wasn't registered.. Anyone know anything about that?
InterNIC has been screwing up everything for as long as I can remember, this is really no big one [suprise].
I just registered /. Now all of you AC'ers have got to go.
:P
The whois database hasn't been updated regularly for a while now -- they've been updating it once every few days.
I recently did a slew of modify domains, and even though whois isn't functioning properly, the root nameservers seem to be updated in a reasonably timely manner.
They're providing astonishingly bad service, especially for a company with their unrealistic market cap and the new prospect of competitors, but I don't think this is a meltdown at the net's core. They have a history of braeking things during upgrades or internal expansions, and they always manage to put things back on track eventually.
Muahahahahahahahahaha!
Yeah...it was truly funny seeing two applications ...but at this point,
accepted for internic.net.
who would want that one anyway?
Yeah, it's all good in the hood over here.
On February 19th I submitted a host modify to the NIC, on the 12th of March they claimed to have completed it (they actually made no changes at all). Three weeks for a host modify (and then they screw it up to boot)!!!!! I called them and asked what their turn around time is and was told 24-48 hours!
On the 5th of March I submitted a host modify for which I never received confirmation of any sort, nor does Internic have any record of ever receiving it.
On the 9th of March I submitted the same host modify I'd submitted on the 5th, same story, no confirmation e-mail, Internic has no record of receiving it.
On the 12th of March I called the NIC and informed them of the issues I've had, they assured me that if I were to fax them a host modify request by 4pm their time that my changes would make it into the root servers update that night. At roughly 3:05 their time I faxed my request to the NIC, it's now the 14th of March and none of the host modify requests I've made have taken place.
Additionally I was told by the NIC that they don't even have any system in place to track faxes sent to them. This is the organization that controls domain registration for the majority of the world???
Cute screenshot.
I don't recognize that OS that you're running netscape on. What is it? Is it any good?
;-)
You are NOT supposed to whois web servers. You are supposed to whois the toplevel domain that the server is in. For example sun.com, not www.sun.com.
We should all stop using Internic until they
go open source!
Microsoft Corporation (MICROSOFT-DOM) MICROSOFT.COM
Microsoft.com (STARTPLAYING-DOM) STARTPLAYING.COM
microsoft.com (GOTASF-DOM) GOTASF.COM
isn't it?
So when my friend told me he was having ... this is the phenomenon ;-)
problems getting to the Microsoft web
site (pretty much wondered why it didn't
EXIST anymore)
he spoke of... I'm not surprised... the
NIC should be MUCH MUCH bigger.... *SIGH*
they gotta get like OC1200 or somethin...
and they GOTTA START USING LINUX!!!!
I think you misunderstand. The original poster was taking Rob to task for calling attention to the problem and making it worse. He could easily have waited until it was fixed and then posted a recap with whatever commentary he wanted, but the way it came off is "kick 'em while they're down."
Kissing their ass isn't going to get your domains fixed any faster.
"Sorry, you shouldn't see this record"
When would this show up when things are working properly?
My guess is that this doesn't mean "you are seeing something secret", it means some coder is putting out a debug type statement. Did it display the record "you shouldn't see"? That would tend to confirm my suggested interpretation. If you did not, it is still plausible.
To answer your question: by definition the message would not show up if things were working properly.
"Understand ambiguity and you find the truth"
Internic doesn't display "On Hold" information on whois queries anymore. Don't ask me why. They don't even display when it was first registered. Kinda sad really.
Well, you didn't own it in the first place, did you?
I've never been able to do that. Maybe I should send them a bill for 50 minutes of LD for putting me on perpetual hold.
I've been trying for four years to get rid of a FAX number on my internic handle. I've resubmitted my entire information with the FAX number blank, resubmitted with a NEW FAX number, resubmitted with FAX number "none", sent email to request that it be removed, called when paying renewal fees to have it removed. I've tried everything. It's still there. Actually, now I have two: the one I can't get rid of and "none".
I wonder if they still get FAXes addressed to me at my old company...
Aww, quite your bitchin... when it was "free", registration services took MONTHS (not Days) and it sucked.
Get over it.. Relax..
--Steve
It has come to my attention that Joey Skaggs will be hosting the 14th annual April Fools day parade in New York. Perhaps many readers would be interested in attending.
On the serious side, I realize SlashDOT has never been about professional journalism, but I would expect you to atleast TRY. I am always reminded of the story claiming Hotmail/Microsoft's refusal to deactivate the e-mail address used in the util-linux trojan. This story was completely false and after several posts explaining that, it simply vanished from the site. Although SlashDOT is not a printed medium, you cannot simply hit the "Delete" button to make things right. You must first check your facts and also be willing to admit when you are wrong.
How does that rambling relate to this story? Well, reading through some other comments, I've noticed many readers (such as Kenneth Stephen) have taken the initiative to contact NSI directly and learned the errors were due to a problem with their upgrade. This blatant lack of professionalism is scary and even worse, is plastered accross redhat.com as we speak.
"in the past they ALWAYS send you a final notice bill..."
Let me guess, you register the domain, if you find a buyer you pay for it, if you don't you let it expire right?
Fuck off, I'm glad to see NSI clamping down on people like you.
Actually I am just dead jealous! :-)
I want it too!!!! Grrr!
./jedite
It's speculators like this guy that help to make NSI as fucked up as it is. Not that they are entirely to blame, but their lame-ass robots that are always combing the servers at NSI certainly don't make things any better for the rest of us.
All speculators should die.
If NSI is going to make any new policies, it should be against speculators that repetedly register domains and let them expire before they pay - registering by the hundreds and sometimes even by the thousands. Bloody scumbags!
A week or two ago, sume russian hackers who didn't like a russian nazi web page, so they changed where www.ruspatriot.com points to. Somebody got a hold of that techique and is now messing with internic -- maybe.
Internic is the nazi of domain regristy, they deserve to get hell on their hands everynow and then
Lørd Peavey
According to what? WHOIS says that all of these domains are registered by the proper people.
"You are supposed to whois the toplevel domain. . ."
.com, .net, .nu, .cx, .cc, etc...
Toplevel domain ==
Second-level domain == sun.com, linux.org, linux.com, microsoft.com, etc.
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I'm not sure if this is Internic or Demon. I've had that problem on a Majordomo list I admin, only occured for one Demon user on it though so....
Nick
Nick
$whois internic.net
[rs.internic.net]
No match for "INTERNIC.NET".
The InterNIC Registration Services database contains ONLY...balh blah
--------------------------
Your Favorite OS Sucks.
^D
Seriously though, it looks like they're pulling all the POC info.
[rs.internic.net]
No match for "MICROSOFT.COM".
We can all dream, can't we?
One of the domains I own is working fine with whois, the other is returning "No match". I tested a few other domains that I've always wanted to own, but, alas, they're all still showing up as registered. :( ;)
Both of my domains are working fine now, including contact information (which was missing before, even on the one that worked).
Despite what NSI told Kenneth Stephen above, it is now 2:53 PM EST and doing a whois on microsoft.com, news.com, and yahoo.com still yield errors (errors IMHO look like case sensitivity errors; Microsoft.com, microsoft.com, yahoo.com, and Yahoo.com show up separately). Freaking out since I registered 2 new names for my employer 2 days ago, I quickly checked out all the domains _I_ control and they're all fine (for now). Is this going to be fixed by tomorrow? I, like others have mentioned here, have had problems modifying records lately; I eventually gave up and faxed my modifications to them (and had to do that twice). What's going on over there? I've always been more than willing to cut NSI slack 'cause things have basically been working (which is better than not working, which is bad (TM)). But the past 3-6 months it just seems like NSI does one stupid thing after another. Isn't ICANN supposed to be doing something about this, especially after their big pow-wow in Singapore?
Posted by NJViking:
I see no such odd behavior. Perhaps someone
queried Internic at the wrong time?
NJV
Posted by stodge:
So this might be why for the past few days whenever I send an email to my parents (they use UK Demon) I get errors:
... while talking to punt-1.mail.demon.net.:
... and I thought my ISP was getting flaky ...
Put them out of our misery, please!
I just called them. It appears that they are going through an upgrade, and everything will be fine by 2:00 PM EST.
There is no such thing as luck. Luck is nothing but an absence of bad luck.
All real DNS queries seem to be working, dont they?
> server ns.internic.net
Default Server: ns.internic.net
Address: 198.41.0.4
> microsoft.com
Server: ns.internic.net
Address: 198.41.0.4
Non-authoritative answer:
microsoft.com nameserver = ATBD.microsoft.com
microsoft.com nameserver = DNS1.microsoft.com
microsoft.com nameserver = DNS4.CP.MSFT.NET
microsoft.com nameserver = DNS5.CP.MSFT.NET
Authoritative answers can be found from:
microsoft.com nameserver = ATBD.microsoft.com
microsoft.com nameserver = DNS1.microsoft.com
microsoft.com nameserver = DNS4.CP.MSFT.NET
microsoft.com nameserver = DNS5.CP.MSFT.NET
ATBD.microsoft.com internet address = 131.107.1.7
DNS1.microsoft.com internet address = 131.107.1.240
DNS4.CP.MSFT.NET internet address = 207.46.138.11
DNS5.CP.MSFT.NET internet address = 207.46.138.12
Before seeing this on slashdot I was trying to look up the domain record for my domain and couldn't find it! In a panic I emailed my web service provider. Glad to see it wasn't just me, but this is still not good. NSI needs to get their act together.
I still haven't decided how lazy I should be about this: On 23 February, I sent in a domain modification to change one of my nameservers from a deceased machine to a new machine that had agreed to be secondary. This was switching a nameserver, not editing the existing nameserver entry. I know this should work because I actually used the text file from the LAST time I changed a nameserver.
InterNIC sends me back a reply saying that if I want to change ISPs, I have to use the enclosed template. The template they tack to the end is domain-template.txt version 4.0 - the exact template I sent them in the first place!
I might be missing something - but I doubt it.
According to the new regulations, you have to prove that you are capable of providing this service - I think NSI is failing miserably. I can only hope the ruling body feels the same.
It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall in their offices these days.
I have noticed about an hour ago that my NIC handle TM978 was missing. I have thought they have deleted that because it was too old ;-)
But now I am seeing it again. Interesting.
And just one minute after it is gone again. May be they use some kind of load sharing and one of the servers has lost its DB ?
JLester wrote:
> I registered a new domain last Sunday
> and it still hasn't been added.
1) If you don't get a reply email with a tracking number within an hour or so, resubmit.
2) If you do get a reply email with a tracking number, but they don't finish processing your submission, fax a copy of the reply email to them and they will process it manually. They need a copy of the reply email with the *tracking number* to do this, that's why there's step 1 first.
HTH
jc
"I'd much rather be mistaken as a lesbian by a bigot than be mistaken as a bigot by a lesbian."
But that would require actual effort and thought on the part of Internic. And when have they ever demonstrated that?
parting = Sorrow.sweet("such");
"What do you mean, invalid parameters? 9000Gigs of RAM and it can't answer a simple question!" -- Earthworm Jim
You can go as high as OC192. And I belive the problem is not bandwidth, but overworked systems.
They've been discussing this on NANOG. Apparently NSI is doing some sort of WHOIS upgrade that was supposed to be finished around 0800 EST. Now they're not giving out any ETA. Some domains (like microsoft.com) are visible again, but some are still ugly. Check out yahoo.com. I re-registered my domain just in case...
You bastard... I wanted microsoft.com.
"One of these days... milkshake... BOOM!!!!" - emb
It's KDE 1.1, probably running on Red Hat 5ish (note the duff, easily-fixable Courier fonts).
/.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not - you probably are, but it's hard to tell on
Tedious Bloggy Stuff - hooray?
I don't mind using my nickname to point out when Rob has (yet AGAIN) done something lamebrained.
He panicked and whimpered over the possibility of libelous AC rumor-posts, then goes and does something like this voluntarily.
I'll bet he chases fire engines and ambulances in RL, too...
(I'll also bet this post gets scored extremely low for pointing out Rob's blunderous stupidity.)
~~~~~~~~
Signature illegible, could be somebody else.
At least someone saw my intention.
/.-ed off the net, but its entirely another when someone writes in and says 'hey, this site that I have no association with is having problems' and then Rob posts it here so that 10,000 teenaged idiots can bring the site to its knees during its already existent instability.
All of the 'get a clue' posts need to take your own advice. I come here for news (as do most others), and I find it embarrassingly irresponsible of Rob, knowing the effect a slashdot post can have on another site, to contribute to an already existing problem.
It's one thing when the linux counter *asks* him to post and then gets
As for you people who 'just don't get it', maybe Rob will one day add salt to one of your net wounds by handing your URL over to the 10,000's of readers who come here. With any luck, it'll melt your overclocked CPU and get you out of our hair for a few days.
~~~~~~~~
Signature illegible, could be somebody else.
I registered a new domain last week, received a
tracking number and all, but it still hasn't been added. Their website and e-mails from hostmaster advertise a 24-48 hour turnaround on new domains, but mine has been waiting a week now. This is ridiculous for something that even I could automate without too much trouble. Something definitely needs to be done about it.
"FORMAT C:" - Kills bugs dead!
I registered a new domain last Sunday and it still hasn't been added. This is very frustrating when you expect the 24-48 hours that they tell you on their website and in e-mails. I've registered several domains in the past, but they haven't taken this long. Something definitely needs to be done about them.
I think even *I* could write a system to check new domains and add them every night. Just delete them later on if you don't receive payment, but don't stop everyone from adding new ones. Maybe make everyone register their handle before they can add domains. Then, if I've been verified and always made payment in the past, they automatically register mine immediately.
Jason
"FORMAT C:" - Kills bugs dead!
No problems here. *shrug*
This sig is false.
Maybe domain names should be rationed, (ie, put a limit on how many names one person or entity can hold). I know this is draconian but I'd much rather see the names spread out over a large part of the private population than a few speculators or name-greedy companies with the vast majority.
This would be something like the limit of tickets one person can buy at the box office, to prevent someone from buying a whole bunch and then scalping them.
Just a few random ideas.
-OT
Hum - they couldn't share the data with the new registry agents if they, say, couldn't keep the data straight, now could they? I would think, however, that corruption should cause call for greater diversity and redundancy (MORE competition) in this arena. So, I would suspect its an honest mistake. Good luck to people with this system.
Um, your an idiot. Don't you understand what intermittent means? Bringing attention to this problem was responsible journalism, even though I don't think anyone considers /. a regular "news" entitiy. I know, it's "News for Nerds Stuff that Matters," but /. is not trying to come off as some ethical, responsible, holy'r than thou, news site. At least I don't consider them as such. /. is for fun! It's "News for Nerds" and "Stuff that Matters." Maybe you don't belong here. If you don't like the content, seek your "news" elsewhere. Just because he titled it "InterNIC Blowing Up (again)" makes it libelous?
You are an idiot.
Get a clue, no one considers slashdot to be a responsible news site. It's a site for nerds to learn about some of the latest rumors/happenings in the online world. If you have a problem go away. We don't like you.
-matt
I'm not surprised to see these calls for prior restraint on the part of /. This merely indicates a lack of careful thinking. Putting brain in gear before clicking "Submit" is always a good policy.
/., it's not like this story is about some out of the way site running on a weak ISP with an oversubscribed T1.
Just how many queries do you think the whois servers and NSI registry servers get in an average hour?
If NSI can't handle 10,000 queries in a couple of hours,
THEY SHOULD GET OUT OF THIS BUSINESS.
Not only that, but NSI of *all* companies involved with the net (that includes Microsoft, MCI and all the other 800 lb gorillas out there) deserves scrutiny for how they do business. From the very beginning, I've always felt it was unwise for the US government to hand over a critical function like domain registry to an obscure and basically unaccountable private business, and this just adds to the evidence of why I was right.
As for the impact on sites reported on in
Get real.
PS Not a few commenters here might want to brush up on their knowledge of how the net works. Start with the difference between "registry" and "name server."
--------
Bill Gates Is My Evil Twin.
Nonsense. Given that the net was much, much smaller than it is now, Internic registration pre-NSI (yes, kiddeez, NSI is *not* the Internic, it is a service they manage under agreement with the US government, but the Internic long predates NSI) was fast and accurate.
And, yes, it was free (in effect, paid for by your tax dollars).
-------
Bill Gates Is My Evil Twin.
sean@sks-pc [17:56:52] /home/sean> whois microsoft.com
[rs.internic.net]
No match for "MICROSOFT.COM".
Just checked it at 10:16 (pst) and my domain came up with flying colors, contact info to boot. From the time it took me to read the article it went from "Can't find ya baby" to "Yes you do exist".
Cool...
"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
Steven Wright
No match for "SLASHDOT.ORG".
The InterNIC Registration Services database contains ONLY
non-military and non-US Government Domains and contacts.
Other associated whois servers:
American Registry for Internet Numbers - whois.arin.net
European IP Address Allocations - whois.ripe.net
Asia Pacific IP Address Allocations - whois.apnic.net
US Military - whois.nic.mil
US Government - whois.nic.gov
<quote>
Rob posts it here so that 10,000 teenaged idiots can bring the site to its knees during its already existent instability. </quote>
Internic probably didn't even notice. With the servers handling the load that they are, a mere slashdot effect isn't likely to have much effect. On that note - it might be interesting to ask them if they did notice.
M.
NSI doesn't have to apply to become a register. They're going to seperate their business into two divisions:
a) Running root name servers and the back end whois database, as well as maintaining the authoritative zone files.
b) Selling and processing registrations.
New registrars will buy the things in (a) from Internic at the same rate that they sell it to their (b) unit.
So don't think that Internic is going to go away.
I think the original poster is being rather presumptious to believe that he knows slashdot is making it worse.
If there really was an upgrade going on it probably has nothing to do with us looking things up.
I was trying to figure out how objective Rob & Crew could be for the linux.com announcement on slashdot. Rob is listed as being on the advisory board for the site. A journalist might decide not to run the story, or would hand it off to another reporter who did not have such an investment in the organization.
Now most of the time, the um, Slashdot editorial staff isn't posting items, such as this one, which are potential news makers in and of themselves. There have been a few times, such as the recent LinuxWorld conference where we would get a few snipets here and there.
But even so, this is not /.'s strong point. Slashdot is really good at filtering out everything else that is going on Out There(tm) and publishing links to news and information, a good portion of which I feel comfortable considering as journalism. And then we get to post comments about what we think (some of them off-topic), which isn't too far off from what Rob & Crew do in the two or three lines that usually accompany each post to the homepage.
When I come here (which is usually a couple times a day) I always consider the source, I use my own critical nogin, and I don't feel like I have to be led around by every piece of information that appears on slashdot.
cheers,
bnf
this space intentionally left blank (oops)
Isn't it ironic that people like my fellow slashdotters and myself complain about the very slashdot effect problem that they also help contribute to and help strengthen?!
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Maybe Micro$oft did that... took over AltaVista too! Damn, damn, DAMN!
hehe i'm gonna claim slashdot.org !
;)
bye bye rob
- http://www.penguin.nl - if you can't beat them,
This may be another argument for using alternate domains other than the 'big 3,' besides the lower cost. My domains on the .cx hierarchy have never been in question.
-- 'As it all washes away you know -- as it all is one, no one is alone.' -Cosmic Disorder
I GOT starwars.com !!! naaa na ne boo boo.
bwahahaha...it's mine all mine.
What do you expect from NSI?
Anyway it looks like the problem is getting fixed.
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Not only that, but for domains that are listed, no contact information is given. What a bunch of lamers. Let's slashdot www.internic.net, that'll teach 'em.
The Kow got this 4 U...
Old news by 1 h though
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To: DOMAIN-POLICY@LISTS.INTERNIC.NET
Subject: Re: Netsol's own gTLD nameserver 6 days behind?
From: Chuck Gomes Add to Contacts
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 12:56:13 -0500
By the time you read this the problem should be fixed. A problem was
encountered with hardware.
Chuck
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Hayes Merritt, III [SMTP:harter@FEEDING.FRENZY.COM]
> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 1999 9:47 AM
> To: DOMAIN-POLICY@LISTS.INTERNIC.NET
> Subject: Re: Netsol's own gTLD nameserver 6 days behind?
>
> On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, William X. Walsh wrote:
>
> > j.gtld-servers.net had 1999030600 which is nearly a week
> > behind the other nameservers
>
> Blah, its fixed.
> [sam@spleef sam]$ soa
> a.root-servers.net 199903120
> b.root-servers.net 199903120
> c.root-servers.net 199903120
> d.root-servers.net 199903120
> e.root-servers.net 199903120
> f.root-servers.net 199903120
> g.root-servers.net 199903120
> h.root-servers.net 199903120
> i.root-servers.net 199903120
> j.root-servers.net 199903120
> k.root-servers.net 199903120
> l.root-servers.net 199903120
>
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I recently lost casinomoney.com I just noticed it this weekend. I was about to pay for the domain when I notice I didn't own it anymore. Granted my payment is late, but in the past the ALWAYS send you a final notice bill. I'll have to contact them tomorrow and see if I can straighten this out. Some is going to be unhappy here either the new owner or myself. I can't believe this could happen.
I registered a domain, received both emails acknowledging the receipt of the registration and the email stating that the domain had been registered, and then waited and waited. Nothing showed up. I finally registered to domain name. This time everything went as expected. I don't know what would have happened is someone would have registered the domain in the mean time. It seems the "my" domain name was wide open to whoever wanted it.
I tried linux.org and slashdot.org some time ago...InterNIC couldn't find them, and I merely deduced only I had this problem. ;]
Well, now it CAN find 'em. Good.
It broke and came back to life.
Kinda like most things I happen across. Guitar amps, motherboards. Maybe I'm an incarnate Slashdot effect?
Can't sleep, the clowns will eat me...
Luckily the root nameservers still work...
(11:45am)(jcs)(tty7)(~) whois internic.net
[rs.internic.net]
No match for "INTERNIC.NET".
telnet to rs.internic.net, then type 'whois a'
Whois: whois a
getrecord: Error in format for file (NO EOR)
getrecord: Error in format for file (NO CR)
getrecord: Error in format for file (NO EOR)
getrecord: Error in format for file (NO CR)
[ snip ]
[No name] (a)
[ snip ]
My sites are showing up unregistered! I really respect NSI for what they have accomplished and I hurts me to see they are going down.
I wasnt kissing ass thank you. Its not hurting me any - you can still get to my site.
Quick, somebody register all of the famous domains that are claiming to be not registered!!
Seriously though, some machine at internic.net is just being slow (Slashdot Effect??). I managed to get slashdot.org's and microsoft.com's registration information out of it..
Interestingly enough, by posting an article about their machines being messed up, we're messing them up more. The Slashdot Effect can be a destructive force, you know...
MoooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooo!!!!!!!
whois looks like it fails about 50% of the time on microsoft.com, and when it does fail, it usually fails repeatedly. Could be a that only a few of their servers are actually hosed. Checking the regsistration online at www.internic.net seems to consistently work for me.