[ale] whois

[Fulton Green]

whois.CRSNIC.net only takes second-level domains in the .COM, .NET, .ORG
and .EDU top-level domains. In other words, it'll take CNN.com, but neither
www.CNN.com nor http://CNN.com .

whois.ARIN.net, OTOH, only takes numeric IP addresses. If it's not mapped
in ARIN, they are at least kind enough to tell you which database to go
to (usually APNIC.net, RIPE.net or LACNIC.net, which in turn may refer you
to a country-specific NIC).

I wish whois.CRSNIC.net could similarly refer you if you were, say, trying
to find info on, say, the Telstra.com.Au domain. I think WorldNIC used to
do this, but their whois server appears to have been down for several
months if not years.

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:47:05AM -0400, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> Anyone know of a better "whois" database?
> 
> 
> Using a shell command, I reach crsnic.net, which has no match
> for the offending URL.
> 
> 
> The only other source I know is <http://combat.UXN.com> and
> they report this morning:
> 
> 
> >Aug 26, 2002, ARIN has changed its format, the proram I use can not 
> >recognize it. Since ARIN is used to find delegations to other regional 
> >registries all lookups will fail. Sorry 

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