[Ietf-not43] DNS servers in WHOIS output

[Andrew Newton]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:13:50PM -0600, Eric A. Hall wrote:
> 
> In light of that argument, it is worth noting that the LDAP-WHOIS service
> is neither designed nor intended to function as a registry interface. As
> such, there is no compelling reason I can think of for including DNS data
> in the WHOIS output, other than ~"we have always done it that way."
> 
[..snip..]
>
> So, is DNS information such as NS RRs and the glue A RRs something that
> people really need, or is it just something that people expect because its
> always been there, but it isn't absolutely required.

I think you are making a bigger deal out of this than necessary.
The intention of WHOIS as it relates to why NS records are duplicated
there is to be a place to go when DNS isn't functioning properly.
Such things as cache poisoning, incorrect master/slave relationships,
etc... can cause this.  And yes, I have used it for troubleshooting.

But since this is for troubleshooting and nobody is saying to do
backup resolution out of WHOIS or LDAP (atleast I hope not!), it
isn't necessary to reproduce the DNS infomation verbatim.  So breaking
this out into separate NS and A records seems to be overdoing it
a bit.

-andy

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Andrew Newton
VeriSign Applied Research
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