Re: [weirds] I-D Action: draft-hollenbeck-dnrd-ap-query-00.txt

[Antoin Verschuren <[e-mail]>]

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On 01-05-12 04:46, John Levine wrote:
> 
> For a name registry or registrar, I'd be thrilled to get a list of 
> name servers they know about that resolve to that IP.  A common
> bad guy trick is to register a bunch of names, stick them all on
> the same servers, but use a different subdomain name for each one,
> e.g. foo.biz has name server ns1.foo.biz and bar.biz has
> ns1.bar.biz , but they're really the same IP.

Before people are getting too wet erotic area's, I think the request
is not about names.
For a names registry, only forward lookups are permitted, so query a
name, and get back IPs'. Querying for an IP and getting back names
from a names registry is, although perhaps technically viable, not
permitted by at least European database law.
I can imagine that it's cool info though, I would certainly like a
query for a postal code and get a list of all Internet resources
listed at that physical address. Great marketing info, but not the
info a registry is supposed to deliver.

The IP query is for RIR's I suppose. They deliver IP blocks, so
querying for an IP there will give you their registration data for
that block. No reverse search.

The ID search is something registrars indeed sometimes use to see if
the object that exists in their internal DB still exist in the
registries DB so they link the correct objects. But also here, it's
only a forward object search, no information on what other objects are
linked to it in the registry DB.
Or to give an example: I want to know when registering a new object if
my role-object in the registry DB is still correct, so I query for it
by object-ID, that I know by heart or is in my own administration. I
then only get back that object, and not all the resources that it is
used in.


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