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[email protected] (Lionel Elie Mamane) wrote: > > A nonprofit firm in Frankfurt, Denic eG, which manages Germany's > > eight million registered .de domain names, has also indicated that > > it is planning to bid. > > For what it is worth, some consider the .de whois server broken; see > below. Let's note that the new RFC (3912) doesn't mention the "help > methodology" anymore. And some call this not broken but necessary. I can explain off-list, if you like. > The .DE whois server is broken. I should be able to telnet to the > WHOIS server on the whois port, send it a domain, and get results. You are getting results. > $ telnet whois.denic.de whois > Trying 81.91.162.7... > Connected to whois.denic.de. > Escape character is '^]'. > denic.de > domain: denic.de > status: connect > > Connection closed by foreign host. > Further, these options are not documented anywhere, because the usual > "help" methodology, as documented by the RFC, doesn't work: http://www.denic.de/en/domains/technik/denic_whois-server/index.html (Easily found by searching for "whois", first hit - yes, I know, it's ugly, but you're still not telling the truth which is my point here) > $ telnet whois.denic.de whois > Trying 81.91.162.7... > Connected to whois.denic.de. > Escape character is '^]'. > ? > domain: ? > status: invalid Which is defined in what RfC? If it is, I will gladly tell the folks to implement it. Anyway, I see your point in that server being somewhat problematic if you need more than "free/used"; yet the information is there, and someone who really needs more info has no hard time finding the docs. Yours, Elmar. -- "Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren." (PLemken, <[email protected]>) --------------------------------------------------------------[ ELMI-RIPE ]---
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