[25578] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSI again removes services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Wed Oct 20 16:59:51 1999
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 16:58:20 -0400 (EDT)
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From: woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Patrick Evans's message
of "Wednesday, October 20, 1999 17:30:11 +0100"
regarding "Re: NSI again removes services"
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[ On Wednesday, October 20, 1999 at 17:30:11 (+0100), Patrick Evans wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: NSI again removes services
>
> My machines generally come with fwhois, which wants it in the format
> 'whois $domain@$server'...As you suggest, sending the commands
> straight to the TCP port takes care of that.
Isn't that "fwhois <domain>@<server>" ? :-)
----^
I think the inventor of fwhois should have nasty things done to the
arguments of every command he ever types again!
You can still get the *real* whois client from most any *BSD, or from
the InterNIC ftp site. You can also find the much more advanced RIPE
version too (of which a slightly modified version is now in
NetBSD-current too).
ftp://rs.internic.net/netprog/whois.c
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/tools/ripe-whois-tools-2.4.tar.gz
However wouldn't just quoting the so-called "domain" portion make a
multi-word query like that work with fwhois?
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Greg A. Woods
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