[9824] in Athena Bugs
rsaix 7.4G: whois
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gptesler@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Tue Aug 25 10:24:50 1992
From: gptesler@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 10:24:38 EDT
System name: m4-035-13
Type and version: POWER 7.4G
Display type: graygda
What were you trying to do?
Use whois
What's wrong:
The whois server it contacts apparently is no longer the correct one.
athena% whois athena.mit.edu
"You can bring any calculator you like to the midterm, as long as it
doesn't dim the lights when you turn it on."
-- Hepler, Systems Design 182
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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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athena% whois -h nic.ddn.mil athena.mit.edu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT-ATHENA)
Hostname: ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Address: 18.72.0.39
System: MICROVAX-II running UNIX
Coordinator:
Hoffmann, Ron (RH164) hoffmann@MIT.EDU
(617) 253-8400
Record last updated on 07-Jun-91.
To see this host record with registered users, repeat the command with
a star ('*') before the name; or, use '%' to show JUST the registered users.
