Re: coza whois

On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 10:02 -0400, Joe Abley wrote:
> On 2011-07-18, at 09:49, Joe Botha wrote:
> 
> >> If the problem is that we need za.whois-servers.net to be populated, let's
> >> just ask Rodney to add it. What should za.whois-servers.net be a CNAME for?
> > 
> > I guess za.whois-servers.net should point at whois.coza.net.za
> 
> whois.coza.net.za is unreachable from here over IPv6. It works over IPv4, but as others have noticed it doesn't actually return whois data -- it just gives a URL. For domains that don't end in co.za it just says "Incorrect Query" which is a bit cryptic, I would say, for someone typing "whois blah.net.za" and expecting an answer.
> 
> In a more general sense, is that the right server to answer for all names under ZA? Or just for names in the Uniforum SA registry? Or is there a better option for both?

That's the problem with non-standards.

As Aragon has pointed out and even tried to patch, whois.coza.net.za:43
is absolutely the wrong place to look for .za information. There is no
better place for .za info, other than the zaDNA web page (afaik).

whois.coza.net.za:43 returns one of four replies:

1. Registered (as in the co.za domain is)
2. Available (as in the co.za domain is)
3. Incorrect Query (as in your query was not for domain.co.za)
4. Please go away for x Seconds (as in you hit the various token bucket
rate limiting checks and you should probably do as asked).

While I'm muddying the waters, can I remind people of
draft-sanz-whois-srv-00 - aka dig +short _nicname._tcp.co.za SRV


Also available for co.za:

http://www.coza.net.za/whois.shtml
http://captcha.coza.net.za

regards

--Calvin




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