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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 17:03:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Cappuccio <chris@dqc.org> To: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@weird.com> Cc: nanog@merit.edu In-Reply-To: <m11e5bE-000g5eC@most.weird.com> Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.20.9910201658250.21186-100000@dqc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Greg A. Woods wrote: | [ On Wednesday, October 20, 1999 at 14:14:12 (-0700), Chris Cappuccio wrote: ] | > Subject: Re: NSI again removes services | > | > 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 ;) | | *Eight* years old! Even the latest version of the real whois isn't | quite that old yet! ;-) I had no idea! Congratulations at least for | having your code survive for that long. That might also explain why I | wasn't able to find a canonical distribution site for the source code. | Well, 7 or 8 years i don't remember 1992 ?? There certainly was a whois.c from the pre-internic days and it didn't compile on Linux, hence the need for fwhois ;) | Sometimes I wonder about the tastes of some of those who make up Linux | distributions. Other times I wonder whether or not they've just got a | hate on for anything from *BSD! :-) | IMHO it's lack of attention to detail | (Oh how I pine for the idea of a single distributed rwhois-style | database where a simple query would always find the answer no matter | who's whois data it was!) | geektools.com ?? There are several unofficial services that do this sort of thing
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