[nznog] so ... what is the real reason there is whois anyway?

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 01:02:12PM +1200, jfp wrote:

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Hang on, I'm confused now. Aren't you mixing up DNS zones and whois information there?

You're talking about Chesley Rafferty targeting .nz domain name registrants by harvesting whois data, presumably?

I'm assuming we're talking about the root nz zone here.

If you can do a zone transfer on the .nz domain, then you get a list of all the domains currently setup (basically a list of all nz domains) You can then walk through that and do a whois for each domain. Spam heaven...

jfp.

so... which is operationally more important, DNS or whois? which would you rather see turned off? --bill