[12867] in Athena Bugs
Re: whois
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Nov 9 05:39:25 1994
To: gsstark@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, jhawk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Nov 1994 22:35:59 EST."
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 1994 05:39:16 -0500
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Greg Stark, gsstark@MIT.EDU, writes:
> whois seems to _still_ be pointed at the military whois server.
> which means it doesn't find anything non-military unless the user
> knows to use -h rs.internic.net.
This depends on the Athena platform, I think...
> the default should be changed to the non-milnet whois server:
> rs.internic.net
Not quite; though that's what most people use, since the
CNAME of whois.internic.net (which points to rs.internic.net)
is available, using that instead would be a good idea.
> this bug was first introduced almost two years ago,
> and i thought it had been fixed, but apparently not.
It should be noted that a new version of whois.c can be obtained
from rs.internic.net (:-)) by ftp...; a shell wrapper would also
do fine.
--jhawk
