[22991] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NIC database/whois
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Sprickman)
Tue Feb 9 12:27:01 1999
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 11:47:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
To: Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com>
cc: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@iMach.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19990209095659.A1896@noc.untraceable.net>
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Andrew Brown wrote:
> 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...
And they terminate this one at 256 I guess:
Whois: server FOO-HST
Aborting search 256 records found .....
Charles
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| Charles Sprickman Internet Channel |
| INCH System Administration Team (212)243-5200 |
| spork@inch.com access@inch.com |
= =----------------=
> telnet whois.internic.net
> whois my.name.server
> server nic-handleformyserver
>
>
