[25579] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSI again removes services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Cappuccio)
Wed Oct 20 17:16:53 1999
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 14:14:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chris Cappuccio <chris@dqc.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Greg A. Woods wrote:
| I think the inventor of fwhois should have nasty things done to the
| arguments of every command he ever types again!
|
The fact that several widely used Linux distributions still have this
ancient, broken program that I cobbled together from old finger source code
nearly 8 years ago should speak for itself ;)
| 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?
Yes