Re: IETF-51 WhoisFix BoF Announcement

On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:17:52AM -0700, Jeff Williams wrote:
> 
> Mark and all,
> 
> Mark Kosters wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 04:35:40PM +0200, Jaap Akkerhuis wrote:
> > > I remember that, eons ago, we used it in-house as a source to look
> > > up digitized pictures of colleges and in the institute next door
> > > they used it to find empty conference rooms.  We have things as
> > > ldap and friends to do these.
> >
> > LDAP is something that we have been playing with for a while.  An example
> > of an ldap service that accesses domain registration data is at:
> >   http://www.ldap.research.netsol.com
> 
>   I get the following message when trying to access your URL ref.:
> Oops!
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> We are sorry for this inconvience.

Ah, there's nothing like a hardware failure just hours after your boss
sends out the URL.

It's back up.  Even though our LDAP servers are in a fail-over configuration,
our web server is not (if the web site demand is there, we'll make it so however).

-- 
Andrew Newton
VeriSign Applied Research
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