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Re: NIC database/whois

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Forrest W. Christian)
Tue Feb 9 12:50:12 1999

Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:25:48 -0700 (MST)
From: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@iMach.com>
To: Jon Ribbens <jon@oaktree.co.uk>
cc: Matthew Whalen <mwhalen@uucom.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19990209105813.A27908@oaktree.co.uk>

On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Jon Ribbens wrote:

> This seems not to work anymore these days.

Hmmm....

whois lewis.mt.net

# whois ns01.backupdns.com
[No name] (NS31832-HST)

   Hostname: NS01.BACKUPDNS.COM
   Address: 206.127.77.91
   System: ? running ?

   Record last updated on 30-Sep-97.
   Database last updated on 8-Feb-99 05:16:01 EST.

# whois "server ns31832-HST"
Complete Computing Services (TAMECT-DOM)
TAMECT.ORG
Complete Computing Services (ICS-CO-DOM)
ICS-CO.COM
Cybervisors, Inc. (CYBERVISORS-DOM)
CYBERVISORS.COM

Works for me.

The only gotcha is that if you have over 50 responses, you need to use the
online whois via telnetting to internic.net.



- Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) 
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