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RFC 1714 Referral Whois Protocol (RWhois) November 1994
badref When a client receives a %referral response that does
not work, it must report the bad referral to the server
that issued the referral. The referral is bad only if
the referred server does not contain the SOA record for
the authority area in question. It is not considered a
bad referral if the server does not have an answer to
the query, but responds positively to the -soa area
directive. This merely means that there is not an
answer to the query. When a -badref is sent to the
referring server; it should log the bad referral so the
administrator of that server can remove the reference
if it is no longer correct. This action should only be
taken after receiving a negative response to the query
and the SOA request.
recurref When a client receives a referral that results in a
recursive action, the referring server must be
informed. The -recurref directive must be sent
identifying the recursive loop. This directive should
only be sent to the server one level back, even if
multiple server were involved in the referral.
update An RWhois primary server must be aware of its
secondary servers. If the data in the primary server
changes, the primary server may choose to notify the
secondary servers. This allows the secondary servers
to quickly reflect changes in the primary server's data.
inssec This action will inform the authority server that the
server indicated in the argument will be a secondary
for its authority area. The server receiving this
directive must determine if the secondary is
acceptable. If it is, the server should be added to
the update list so that it will be informed if data in
the authority area changes.
delsec This action will inform the server that the server
indicated in the subsequent arguments will no longer be
a secondary. The server receiving this action must
determine if the server is a secondary and if so,
remove it from the update list.
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action=inssec|delsec|update
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