[18119] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: small vent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Sat Jun 27 13:25:23 1998
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 10:11:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199806271627.LAA14031@us.networkcs.com>
On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Tim Salo wrote:
> Why can't the registry folks get their collective act together and provide
> users with a system that allows a simple request like "whois name" to
> find the appropriate [piece] of the database.
Why can't the ISPs get their act together and use a whois client that
allows a simple request like "whois name" to find the appropriate
database? This is simple enough that it could be done with a PERL script
frontend to the regular whois client and as an added bonus it could lookup
info in the country-code TLD databases as well.
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