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Re: Duplicate and conflicting NIC Handles

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward S. Marshall)
Wed Jun 17 00:55:24 1998

Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 23:48:09 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Edward S. Marshall" <emarshal@logic.net>
To: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <980616221146.960@SDG.DRA.COM>

On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Sean Donelan wrote:
> Well, it looks like we have yet another WHOIS database, whois.nic.gov.
> The problem is the creators didn't remembered the lessons from previous
> WHOIS databases, namely they've created duplicate conflicting NIC Handles.

They also have bugs:

$ whois @whois.nic.gov
[nic.gov]
Segmentation Fault - core dumped

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