[56714] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Getting a Host Record
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Yardley)
Wed Mar 12 20:31:19 2003
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:30:35 -0800
From: william+nanog@hq.dreamhost.com (Will Yardley)
To: nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030313012515.GA17898@blossom.cjclark.org>
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:25:15PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> I'm feeling really dumb asking this, but how does one get host info
> out of Network Solutions WHOIS these days?
>
> I want to look up the contact info on a host. I can get the IP from
> the hostname and vice-versa along with the registrar, but I can't
> figure out how to get the full record. "Nameserver" queries don't seem
> to work on whois.networksolutions.com anymore, and the records for
> zones that I know use the server no longer include the NIC handle for
> the nameservers.
I usually use 'whois.crsnic.net':
jazz% whois -h whois.crsnic.net ns1.dreamhost.com
Whois Server Version 1.3
Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
Server Name: NS1.DREAMHOST.COM
IP Address: 66.33.206.206
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
What's odd is that the Network Solutions whois server doesn't give out
this information anymore, even for domains registered through NetSol /
Verisign.
jazz% whois -h whois.networksolutions.com "HOST ns1.dreamhost.com"
[snip disclaimer]
No match for host "NS1.DREAMHOST.COM".
This format used to work.
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