Re: [db-wg] running in whios-circles...?

2021-09-17 Thread Tony Finch via db-wg
Frank Habicht via db-wg wrote: > > so on my self-hosted MTA I got an email [unsure about good intentions, > thus checking origin] from 82.156.114.62 > > Whois directed to ripe, ripe said it's iana, iana said it's ripe Yes, but it's a bit more subtle than that. I have hacked a bit on FreeBSD's wh

Re: [db-wg] Puny code or UTF-8 (or both)?

2020-07-13 Thread Tony Finch via db-wg
Peter Koch via db-wg wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand the proposal. Me too :-) > "punycode" is primarily IDNA2003 speak AFAIK IDNA2008 uses punycode in exactly the same way as IDNA2003. One of the major changes was to get rid of stringprep. > How would that system deal with conversion fail

[db-wg] whois referrals for transferred netblocks, was Re: NWI-10 Definition of Country

2019-10-08 Thread Tony Finch via db-wg
George Michaelson via db-wg wrote: > As a point of information, APNIC uses cc "ZZ" specifically for > unallocated and "stub" (outward transferred) records. > > ZZ is an ISO3166 assigned code for "unknown" Which reminds me of some of the more horrible code I have shipped. FreeBSD's whois client

Re: [db-wg] NWIs update

2019-04-10 Thread Tony Finch via db-wg
Nick Hilliard via db-wg wrote: > Gert Doering wrote on 10/04/2019 09:22: > > > > On the server side, yes, please store one-way hashed in > > a secure fashion. > > How though? RIPE DB API authentication is just password authentication, so you can just use bcrypt or some other modern unix crypt or