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Re: decmips 7.4B: whois

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mhpower@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Sun May 24 13:52:25 1992

From: mhpower@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: testers@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: dennis@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [1923] in testers
Date: Sun, 24 May 92 13:52:00 EDT

>defoucauld% whois mit.edu
>whois: connect: Connection refused

% strings /afs/rel-eng/system/pmax_ul4/srvd/usr/ucb/whois | grep nic.ddn.mil
ns.nic.ddn.mil

That's a name server, not a whois server. Unless the program is fixed,
users will (still) have to use, e.g.,

   whois -h nic.ddn.mil mit.edu

Matt

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