[8415] in Athena Bugs
rsaix 7.3Q: whois
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Palka)
Wed Oct 16 13:11:56 1991
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 91 13:12:53 EDT
From: Tom Palka <tompalka@Athena.MIT.EDU>
System name: mint-chocolate-chip
Type and version: POWER 7.3Q
Display type: graygda
What were you trying to do?
Use "whois" to look something up in the nic database.
What's wrong:
This is what I get:
> which whois
/usr/ucb/whois
> whois palka
Tax reform means "Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that fellow behind
the tree."
-- Russell Long
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Hi! You have attempted to contact a whois server at SRI-NIC.ARPA.
Your WHOIS client program is either extremely old or your software
vendor is really out of it. Please complain to them.
To contact the current DDN NIC WHOIS server, it will be
necessary to either:
a) Use a command-line option to tell your WHOIS client
to connect to a different host (NIC.DDN.MIL),
b) Or, recompile WHOIS with the CORRECT name for the DDN NIC,
NIC.DDN.MIL, in place of the ancient SRI-NIC.ARPA.
For further information about the DDN NIC, please contact the new
contractor, GSI, at 1-800-365-3642. Thank You.
--------------------------------------------------------[caw 91/09/24]
What should have happened:
I should have gotten some information.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
it's all above..
