So then David S. Jackson (">dsj@sylvester.dsj.net) said . . .
> Are there any nifty ways you can get all the information you used to
> using just whois? Such as nick-handle, registrant address, technical
> contact, admin contact, last updated, NS servers, and so forth? Was
> this discontinued for security reasons?
The new whois from Marco d'Itri ">md@linux.it> seems to solve the
problems. It uses an algorithm used by the whois.geektools.org server
and redirects the whois query to the appropriate whois server, or tries
to. So, the solution can be either:
1. Get and compile the source to d'Itri's whois
(www.linux.it/~md/software) and replace the old bsdutils whois.
and/or
2. alias whois='whois -h whois.geektools.org' or set the $WHOIS_SERVER
environment variable to whois.geektools.org.
Either approach seems to work fine for me.
Thanks again for all the help!
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