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Re: whois changes

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe McDonald)
Fri May 14 20:58:51 1999

From: joe@vpop.net (Joe McDonald)
To: Sanjay Dani <sanjay@professionals.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 17:57:26 -0700
In-Reply-To: <199905142347.QAA20327@eagle.webpros.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



Actually, there are some queries that can *never* work.  For instance, =
try
doing a whois on netauthority.com, you will find that the handle for that
domain is never returned.  Thus you can never actually do a whois on that
domain.  Pretty bogus huh?

-joe

On Fri, 14 May 1999 16:46:43 -0700 (PDT), Sanjay Dani
<sanjay@professionals.com> wrote:

>Is there a perl module someone is updating to take
>care of all these little changes? The Net:Whois I found on
>on cpan doesn't cover some of the odd ball cases where you
>are required to do a second who is based on the domain handle.

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