[8520] in Athena Bugs
rsaix 7.3R: RS/6000 "whois" bug in accessing the DDN server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reid M. Pinchback)
Thu Oct 31 13:19:34 1991
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 91 13:19:22 EST
From: Reid M. Pinchback <reidmp@Athena.MIT.EDU>
System name: ops-3
Type and version: POWER 7.3R
Display type: hiprf3d
What were you trying to do?
Use "whois" to check on a userid at a site in Canada (trying to see
if my account there was still active).
What's wrong:
When trying to use "whois rmpinchback@daisy.waterloo.edu" on the RS/6000
I got the following message:
Good news is just life's way of keeping you off balance.
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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.
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What should have happened:
It should have tried to query the foreign site. This error message didn't
happen when I tried the same thing from a Vaxstation 3100.
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