Oli, the IS stuff looks *very* good. With some other domains (i.e. CH :-) there are still loose ends) Here's the RIPE objects:
wripe -RT domain is
% Rights restricted by copyright. See http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/copyright.html domain: is descr: Top level domain for Iceland descr: Internet Iceland - INTIS [ ... ] admin-c: HJ18 tech-c: MO33 zone-c: MO33 [ ... ] refer: ripe whois.isnet.is changed: marius@isgate.is 19931123 changed: marius@isgate.is 19970728 source: RIPE person: Helgi Jonsson [ ... ] changed: marius@isnet.is 20000218 source: RIPE person: Marius Olafsson [ ... ] changed: marius@isnet.is 20000218 source: RIPE and here's the referred-to output:
wripe -T domain is
% Rights restricted by copyright. See http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/copyright.html The object shown below is NOT in the RIPE database. It has been obtained by querying a remote server: (whois.isnet.is) at port 43. To see the object stored in the RIPE database use the -R flag in your query. % Rights restricted by copyright. See http://www.isnet.is/whois/copyright.html % % Útgáfuréttur áskilinn. Sjá http://www.isnet.is/whois/utgafurettur.html domain: is descr: Top level domain for Iceland descr: Internet Iceland - INTIS [ ... ] changed: marius@isgate.is 19931123 changed: marius@isgate.is 19970728 source: IS person: Helgi Jonsson [ ... ] changed: hostmaster@isnet.is 20000323 source: IS person: Marius Olafsson [ ... ] changed: marius@isnet.is 19950201 changed: hostmaster@isnet.is 20000323 source: IS As the referral type is RIPE, even passing flags like -r to suppress recursion is working fine:
wripe -rT domain is
% Rights restricted by copyright. See http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/copyright.html The object shown below is NOT in the RIPE database. It has been obtained by querying a remote server: (whois.isnet.is) at port 43. To see the object stored in the RIPE database use the -R flag in your query. % Rights restricted by copyright. See http://www.isnet.is/whois/copyright.html % % Útgáfuréttur áskilinn. Sjá http://www.isnet.is/whois/utgafurettur.html domain: is descr: Top level domain for Iceland [ ... ] changed: marius@isgate.is 19931123 changed: marius@isgate.is 19970728 source: IS %%% End of referred query result CH for example is working in principle, but the remote server still refuses to serve data for it's own TLD root ;-)
wripe -T domain ch
% Rights restricted by copyright. See http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/copyright.html The object shown below is NOT in the RIPE database. It has been obtained by querying a remote server: (whois.nic.ch) at port 43. To see the object stored in the RIPE database use the -R flag in your query. Malformed query string <------------------------------ %%% End of referred query result The RIPE-DB object looks fine, though:
wripe -rRT domain ch
% Rights restricted by copyright. See http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/copyright.html domain: ch descr: Switzerland admin-c: MS219-RIPE tech-c: WH1101 zone-c: WH1101 nserver: domreg.nic.ch nserver: merapi.switch.ch nserver: ns1.ip-plus.net nserver: ns.eu.net nserver: ns.uu.net nserver: dns.princeton.edu nserver: ctina.ar nserver: ns.apnic.net remarks: Website: http://www.nic.ch/ remarks: a complete list of the ch-subdomains can be found via remarks: ftp://ftp.switch.ch/registry/CH.domains mnt-by: CH-DOMREG mnt-lower: CH-DOMREG refer: SIMPLE whois.nic.ch changed: gottsponer@switch.ch 19981223 source: RIPE It would be a nice project for the CENTR tech folks to check all the referred-to servers for those obvious things?! Wilfried.