Re: whois?

[John Stracke <francis at ecal.com>]

Ray Yang wrote:

>         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 ....

I got tired of following the redirects, so I hacked up a wrapper script (/bin/sh) to
do it for me.  If anybody's interested, it's at <http://www.thibault.org/whois2>.
GPL.  By default, it expects fwhois, but it can handle whois; just comment out the
FWHOIS= line and uncomment the WHOIS= line.

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