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Hello All, On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 01:13:21AM -0500, Steve Sobol wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 26, 1997 at 07:19:06PM -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > > I guess whois is broken again, at least partially... I was hunting the > > > HylaFax home page, and went off to whois(1) 'tpc.int'... who aren't > > > listed. There isn't something I should know, is there? > > > > The int TLD is not handled by the InterNIC, it's handled by USC-ISI, > > as revealed by a query of InterNIC's servers. > > Aha! Hadn't even thought about that... > > > But you can't do a whois of tpc.int using nii.isi.edu, the whois server > > that you use to do whois queries on .US subdomains. Well a rwhois(client) call to nii.isi.edu done thusly, rwhois -h nii.isi.edu:43 fp.k12.wa.us Returns : Referral Whois (RWhois) spec version 1.0 (InterNIC V-1.0BETA4) Connecting to [nii.isi.edu] port [43] -> command line server RWhois Server at nii-server.isi.edu version V-1.0: Connecting to [rwhois.internic.net] port [4321] Punt referral to higher authority ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Connecting to [rwhois] port [0] Punt referral to higher authority <ERROR> Can't find host 'rwhois'. Punt to higher authority , Hunh.... ! It seems they don't supply whois info for areas below the us. ? Os is it more on the line that they delegate to 'someone' but then don't supply who someone is thru whois ? > Indeed? > > > Perhaps you should ask ISI why they don't provide whois info, or perhaps > > you can ask who does?? > > That would be a Bill Manning question, wouldn't it? Well Bill ?????? > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] > Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued > The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, > Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Me too Just not on News Tia, JimL
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