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Moderately functional whois

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Milhollan)
Sat Jun 27 22:35:01 1998

To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: <Pine.BSI.3.93.980627130456.20705I-100000@sidhe.memra.com> 
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 19:21:04 -0700
From: Mark Milhollan <mlm@ftel.net>

Michael Dillon writes:
>On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
>> handling it intelligently at the registry level which would require no
>> action on the part of the hundreds of thousands of machines out there. 

>I believe in distributed intelligence rather than making everyone rely on
>a single central point of failure. 

[They do anyway, but I agree there's no reason to compound the problem.]

How about a little of both ...

Oh yeah, that's rwhois.  Too bad its not getting much attention.

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