[37564] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whois -a?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Griffin)
Tue May 15 18:30:26 2001
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10105151009010.22394-100000@home.highertech.net> from mike harrison at "May 15, 2001 10:10:13 am"
To: meuon@highertech.net (mike harrison)
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 18:27:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Griffin <stephen.griffin@rcn.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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In the referenced message, mike harrison said:
>
> > whois -a is most commonly seen on BSD systems, and is most definitely
> > not available on every current UNIX.
>
> You can query any whois server with query@server
> ie: 192.168.1.1@arin.net works.
No match for "192.168.1.1@ARIN.NET".
The moral of the story, RTFM to know how your own implimentation
of whois works. Not all whois clients are made alike, and I'm not aware
of any (POSIX for example) standards for it.
