This is a discussion on Re: Getting hold of serial numbers within the Bind Users forums, part of the DNS and Related Forums category; On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 08:44:02PM -0500, Barry Margolin wrote: > If you ever see a difference ...
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On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 08:44:02PM -0500, Barry Margolin wrote:
> If you ever see a difference between WHOIS and a delegation, it's either > because you caught it during a change window (the WHOIS database has > updated, but the changes haven't propagated to the GTLD servers) or > something is broken in the process of feeding data from registrar to > registry to DNS. I believe enough people have observed exactly this broken-ness to conclude that avoiding whois as an authoritative reference serves them well in the general case. Steve -- Stephen J Friedl | Security Consultant | UNIX Wizard | +1 714 544-6561 www.unixwiz.net | Tustin, Calif. USA | Microsoft MVP | steve@unixwiz.net |