[22989] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NIC database/whois
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Brown)
Tue Feb 9 11:10:16 1999
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 09:56:59 -0500
From: Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com>
To: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@iMach.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990209010531.12106A-100000@workhorse.iMach.com>; from Forrest W. Christian on Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 01:07:13AM -0700
>whois my.name.server
>
>note the nic handle for your name server
>
>whois "server nic-handleformyserver"
>
>This will return a list of all the domains for a server.
that's neat, but it's not terribly useful with more than a handful of
zones. internic now terminates all whois queries at 50 records.
otoh, the telnet interface will show you five and then offer you all
the others. so...
telnet whois.internic.net
whois my.name.server
server nic-handleformyserver
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