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Re: whois changes

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Brown)
Sat May 15 00:24:19 1999

Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 00:22:37 -0400
From: Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com>
To: Joe McDonald <joe@vpop.net>
Cc: Sanjay Dani <sanjay@professionals.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
In-Reply-To: <3742bf54.17098617@127.0.0.1>; from Joe McDonald on Fri, May 14, 1999 at 05:57:26PM -0700
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?

whois netauthority2-dom

whenever i'm confronted with a "list of domains" instead of what i
want, i just blindly search upwards from foo-dom, foo1-dom, foo2-dom,
and so on.  this usually works.  except for ag-dom1: antigua.

sure, it's dumb.  but it works.

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