Contacts for various functions or services comply with RFC2142.
Directly from that RFC:
Mailbox | Area | Usage |
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abuse@ntt.net | Customer Relations | Inappropriate public behavior. |
hostmaster@us.ntt.net | DNS | RFC1033 / RFC1034 / RFC1035. See below. |
marketing@us.ntt.net | Marketing Questions | Product & Marketing Information. |
marketing@us.ntt.net | NNTP | Synonym for USENET. |
noc@ntt.net | Network Operations | Network infrastructure. |
postmaster@us.ntt.net | SMTP / Email | RFC821 / RFC822. NOT FOR ABUSE/SPAM/UCE COMPLAINTS. |
Contact Us | Sales | Product purchase information. |
security@ntt.net | Network Security | Security bulletins or queries. |
usenet@us.ntt.net | NNTP | RFC977. |
webmaster@us.ntt.net | HTTP | RFC2068. |
www@us.ntt.net | HTTP | Synonym for WEBMASTER. |
Those not included in RFC2142:
Mailbox | Area | Usage |
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db-admin@rr.ntt.net | NTT Global IP Routing Registry | See this page for more details. |
vipar@us.ntt.net | IP addressing | See this section. |
peering@ntt.net | Peering | Public & private peering. |
For example, the address for the hostmaster of 192.168.0.0 is bmanning@isi.edu and for isi.edu it is koda@venera.isi.edu as taken from the sixth field of the SOA (with the first '.' changed to an '@') in the output below.
% dig 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa soa ; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa soa ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 6 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa, type = SOA, class = IN ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: 168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA. 1D IN SOA blackhole.isi.edu. bmanning.isi.edu. ( 19971802 ; serial 3H ; refresh 15M ; retry 1W ; expiry 1D ) ; minimum ;; Total query time: 5081 msec ;; FROM: guelah to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1 ;; WHEN: Wed Nov 3 20:28:33 1999 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 40 rcvd: 122 % dig isi.edu soa ; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> isi.edu soa ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; isi.edu, type = SOA, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: isi.edu. 1D IN SOA venera.isi.edu. koda.venera.isi.edu. ( 1999110202 ; serial 2H ; refresh 30M ; retry 1W ; expiry 1D ) ; minimum ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: isi.edu. 1D IN NS venera.isi.edu. isi.edu. 1D IN NS ns.isi.edu. isi.edu. 1D IN NS east.isi.edu. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: venera.isi.edu. 1D IN A 128.9.176.32 ns.isi.edu. 1D IN A 128.9.128.127 east.isi.edu. 5D IN A 38.245.76.2 ;; Total query time: 152 msec ;; FROM: guelah to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1 ;; WHEN: Wed Nov 3 20:30:29 1999 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 25 rcvd: 171If your request is in regard to a particular nameserver; look up the whois information for that server. For example, the contact for ns0.verio.net is hostmaster@verio.net and (using Verio's whois server) the contact for ns1.verio.net is also hostmaster@verio.net:
% whois -h rs.internic.net ns0.verio.net [No name] (NS34528-HST) Hostname: NS0.VERIO.NET Address: 129.250.15.61 System: ? running ? Coordinator: Verio Hostmaster (VH19-ORG) hostmaster@VERIO.NET tel.: 214 290-8620 Fax- - - .: 214 744-0740 Record last updated on 09-Apr-1999. Database last updated on 3-Nov-1999 12:38:44 EST. % whois -h whois.gin.ntt.net ns1.verio.net [No name](NS35624-HST) Hostname: NS1.VERIO.NET Address: 204.91.99.140 System: ? running ? Coordinator: Verio Hostmaster (VH19-ORG) hostmaster@verio.net Verio Hostmaster 8005 S. Chester Street, Suite 20 Englewood,CO 80112 US tel.: 214 290-8620 fax.:- - - .-8620 Record last updated on 12-Aug-1999. Database updated dynamically.