[188169] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: finding whois servers, was .pro whois registry down?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Thu Mar 10 11:15:23 2016
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Date: 10 Mar 2016 17:11:53 +0100
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: "Royce Williams" <royce@techsolvency.com>
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> - a link from that top-level page to the whole list, in regex-aware,
> whois.conf-compatible format
What uses whois.conf? Not the whois on my FreeBSD or Mac.
Or you can just use this shell script:
#!/bin/bash
WHOISHOST=${1##*.}.ws.sp.am
exec whois -h $WHOISHOST $*
R's,
John
