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Re: finding whois servers, was .pro whois registry down?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raymond Dijkxhoorn)
Thu Mar 10 11:22:42 2016
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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:18:21 +0100 (CET)
From: Raymond Dijkxhoorn <raymond@prolocation.net>
To: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
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Hai!
>> 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 $*
I just a slightly different one but still my fav one... jwhois
Has a whois.conf style list.
Bye,
Raymond.
