[AusNOG] .au whois server is missing, assumed Borg'ed.

James Deck jdeck at clevvi.com.au
Wed Oct 16 14:56:38 EST 2019


Dear Noggers,

I think you will find your whois is happy again.

Whilst whois.auda.org.au is the ‘official’ server, whois.audns.net.au is now functional again.


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James Deck
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From: AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> On Behalf Of Shaun Haddrill
Sent: Wednesday, 16 October 2019 6:04 AM
To: shane at 2000cn.com.au
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] .au whois server is missing, assumed Borg'ed.

Thanks for the tip Shane. /etc/whois.conf didn't exist in my Ubuntu instance, however creating the file and adding the line as you suggested worked!

Shaun Haddrill

Treasurer,
Electronic Frontiers Australia

Email: treasurer at efa.org.au<mailto:treasurer at efa.org.au>
website: www.efa.org.au<http://www.efa.org.au>

On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 at 17:27, Shane Chrisp <shane at 2000cn.com.au<mailto:shane at 2000cn.com.au>> wrote:
On 11/10/19 2:10 pm, Rob Thomas wrote:

In the meantime, its a trivial task to add the below to /etc/whois.conf

\.au whois.auda.org.au<http://whois.auda.org.au>

Shane


> You'd think they would have done something like 'Hey. This has
> changed. Use this server instead' rather than just deleting the DNS
> record.
>
> Now I have to go open bug tickets with a bunch of distros to get their
> whois updated. 8-\
>
> --Rob
>
> On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 at 15:40, David Keegel <djk at keegel.id.au<mailto:djk at keegel.id.au>> wrote:
>> Yes, like James said, whois.auda.org.au<http://whois.auda.org.au> is the right answer.
>>
>> Although I would use
>>          $ whois -h whois.auda.org.au<http://whois.auda.org.au> news.com.au<http://news.com.au>
>> or
>>          $ jwhois news.com.au<http://news.com.au>
>> rather than
>>          $ telnet whois.auda.org.au<http://whois.auda.org.au> 43
>>
>> Whois.audns.net.au<http://Whois.audns.net.au> was grandfathered for over 12 months, but
>> auDA decided enough time has passed now since they changed
>> to using whois.auda.org.au<http://whois.auda.org.au> when Afilias took over in 2018.
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 04:15:33AM +0000, James Deck wrote:
>>>     Hi all,
>>>
>>>
>>>     https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/au.html
>>>
>>>
>>>     You can (should) use whois.auda.org.au<http://whois.auda.org.au>:
>>>
>>>
>>>     $ telnet whois.auda.org.au<http://whois.auda.org.au> 43
>>>
>>>     Trying 199.15.83.22...
>>>
>>>     Connected to whois.auda.ltd.
>>>
>>>     Escape character is '^]'.
>>>
>>>     news.com.au<http://news.com.au>
>>>
>>>     Domain Name: NEWS.COM.AU<http://NEWS.COM.AU>
>>>
>>>     Registry Domain ID: D407400000001615931-AU
>>>
>>>     Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.auda.org.au<http://whois.auda.org.au>
>>>
>>>     Registrar URL: https://www.cscdigitalbrand.services
>>>
>>>     Last Modified: 2019-02-26T01:12:18Z
>>>
>>>     Registrar Name: Corporation Service Company (Aust) Pty Ltd
>>>
>>>     Registrar Abuse Contact Email: domainabuse at cscglobal.com<mailto:domainabuse at cscglobal.com>
>>>
>>>     Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.8887802723
>>>
>>>     Reseller Name:
>>>
>>>     Status: clientDeleteProhibited
>>>     https://afilias.com.au/get-au/whois-status-codes#clientDeleteProhibited
>>>
>>>     Status: serverDeleteProhibited
>>>     https://afilias.com.au/get-au/whois-status-codes#serverDeleteProhibited
>>>
>>>     Status: serverRenewProhibited
>>>     https://afilias.com.au/get-au/whois-status-codes#serverRenewProhibited
>>>
>>>     Status: serverUpdateProhibited
>>>     https://afilias.com.au/get-au/whois-status-codes#serverUpdateProhibited
>>>
>>>     Registrant Contact ID: AT2688983299772
>>>
>>>     Registrant Contact Name: Domain Admin
>>>
>>>     Tech Contact ID: AT1811166138471
>>>
>>>     Tech Contact Name: News Limited  Domain Manager
>>>
>>>     Name Server: USC1.AKAM.NET<http://USC1.AKAM.NET>
>>>
>>>     Name Server: USC4.AKAM.NET<http://USC4.AKAM.NET>
>>>
>>>     Name Server: NS1-24.AKAM.NET<http://NS1-24.AKAM.NET>
>>>
>>>     Name Server: NS1-50.AKAM.NET<http://NS1-50.AKAM.NET>
>>>
>>>     Name Server: USW1.AKAM.NET<http://USW1.AKAM.NET>
>>>
>>>     Name Server: ASIA1.AKAM.NET<http://ASIA1.AKAM.NET>
>>>
>>>     DNSSEC: unsigned
>>>
>>>     Registrant: News Life Media Pty Ltd
>>>
>>>     Registrant ID: ABN 57088923906
>>>
>>>     Eligibility Type: Company
>>>
>>>
>>>     Also available on https://whois.auda.org.au
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Kind Regards,
>>>     James Deck
>>>     Director
>>>     Clevvi ‑ Formerly 1300 Web Pro
>>>     p
>>>     1300 932 776
>>>     e
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>>>     AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net>> On Behalf Of Lachlan Gilmour
>>>     Sent: Friday, 11 October 2019 2:06 PM
>>>     To: Rob Thomas <xrobau at gmail.com<mailto:xrobau at gmail.com>>
>>>     Cc: <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>> <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>>
>>>     Subject: Re: [AusNOG] .au whois server is missing, assumed Borg'ed.
>>>
>>>
>>>     Hey Rob,
>>>
>>>
>>>     Yeah it looks pretty borg'ed , haven't seen results like this before!
>>>
>>>
>>>     P.s; You should still be able to use the whois provided
>>>     here https://whois.auda.ltd/
>>>
>>>
>>>     image.png
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Kind regards,
>>>
>>>
>>>     Lachlan
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 2:01 PM Rob Thomas <xrobau at gmail.com<mailto:xrobau at gmail.com>>
>>>     wrote:
>>>
>>>       It looks like someone's broken audns.net.au<http://audns.net.au> DNS records, as
>>>       everything's missing APART from MX going to outlook.com... I hate to
>>>       point the finger at microsoft, but it's oh so easy...
>>>       getaddrinfo(whois.audns.net.au<http://whois.audns.net.au>): Name or service not known
>>>       This site can’t be reached
>>>       whois.audns.net.au<http://whois.audns.net.au>’s server IP address could not be found.
>>>       Try:
>>>       Checking the connection
>>>       Checking the proxy, firewall and DNS configuration
>>>       Running Windows Network Diagnostics
>>>       ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED
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>>>
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>>>
>>>     Lachlan Gilmour
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>>>
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>> --
>> David Keegel    <djk at keegel.id.au<mailto:djk at keegel.id.au>>
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