RE: whois?

["Gentzler, Eric" <Eric.Gentzler at qwest.com>]

Network Solutions, had a stroke of mind power and decided to
change the server output format on 12/01.  Don't you just love
how out of the six fields listed that three of them are advertisements
for Network Solutions?  Like we need to have their URL listed.

Use the Geektools whois database instead.

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert G. Ferrell [mailto:root at rgfsparc.cr.usgs.gov]
Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 1:14 PM
To: ietf at ietf.org; ray at Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: whois?


>I'm just wondering -- my whois command doesn't turn up contact information
>for domains anymore. What's going on? I get a registrar's name instead ....

NSI changed WHOIS servers on 1 December.  Use

whois -h whois.networksolutions.com

Robert G. Ferrell
Internet Technologist
National Business Center, US DoI
Robert_G_Ferrell at nbc.gov