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> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 23:55:20 +0800 > To: [email protected] > From: "David R. Conrad" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: small vent > > One reason might be that clueless folk in the US that complain to APNIC or > RIPE (or NANOG) directly instead of looking stuff up in the appropriate > whois database ("ARIN has all the IP information, right?") and complaining > to the people who can actually do something about the problem. > [...] Having to specify the proper database host on the whois command always struck me a bit like requiring every user to specify the appropriate server for, e.g. ".com", every time the user makes a DNS request. Why can't the registry folks get their collective act together and provide users with a system that allows a simple request like "whois name" to find the appropriate [piece] of the database. -tjs
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