[8076] in North American Network Operators' Group
Is the InterNIC really screwed in the head?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ehud Gavron)
Sun Mar 9 16:47:03 1997
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 14:24:17 -0700 (MST)
From: Ehud Gavron <GAVRON@ACES.COM>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: GAVRON@ACES.COM
RFC954 specifies WHOIS. Client requests, server sends. Simple, really.
$ whois opus4-hst
....
Would you like to see registered users of this host?
WHAT??? My whois client is supposed to search for this string
and then do interactive input??? HuH??
$ whois pa aces
(shows a handful of entries)
There are 96 more matches.... would you like these displayed?
EH?
Anyone else think this is not only a gross violation of an RFC,
does a disservice to millions of WHOIS-using users out there, and
the final leg of the dissolution of the world?
Ehud
