[24062] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: whois changes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Brown)
Sun May 16 01:55:09 1999
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 01:53:31 -0400
From: Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com>
To: Joe McDonald <joe@vpop.net>
Cc: Andrew Doane <adoane@best.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
In-Reply-To: <373f1b99.19164508@127.0.0.1>; from Joe McDonald on Sat, May 15, 1999 at 06:18:04PM -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>Yes, I can *guess* what the handle is. The point is that you can't get it
>via whois. You can *guess* that it $domain$x-DOM, but where is this
>documented? And why turn 2 whois queries into at least 3? A whois on a
>domain should at least return the handle - you think?
actually...my point was twofold. yes, you can guess, but this doesn't
always work, as evidenced by antigua which is ag-dom1.
yes, the whois should return direct hits (eg, the domain itself and/or
the host). first, at least.
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