[off!] Whois

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shawn, since you obviously have a better grasp of this than me... when I
telnet to my unix box and do a whois, my unix machine contacts internic
for the data right? is there any other way to get the data? is it cached
and propigated like dns? can I query my isp for it rather than internic?
Sometimes internic is extremely slow or busy and I'd like to get faster
replies.

TIA

-Aaron

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-isp-list@data-point.com
> [mailto:owner-isp-list@data-point.com]On Behalf Of Shawn Hogan
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 1:03 PM
> To: Optigold ISP List
> Subject: Re: [Optigold-ISP] Whois
>
>
> Al Olson wrote:
>
> >Not sure if it would work......
> >
> >Network Dolutions is messing with the database. Most of the
> whois stuff no
> >longer works.
>
> It still works. Don't worry.
>
> Network Solutions didn't break the whois functionality, what
> they stopped
> doing is allowing people to telnet to their servers and do
> multiple whois
> queries with one session.
>
> The whois functionality/protocol still works fine. :-)
>
> I saw some people complaining about it, but in all honesty, I
> wouldn't
> have allowed people to telnet ot my servers to begin with...
> But that's
> just me.
>
> It's sort of like saying that since you don't allow anonymous telnet
> clients to log into your servers and do a FTP command, that
> you broke the
> FTP protocol. Which isn't the case. Whois works fine,
> always has and
> still does. They just don't allow people to anonymously telnet into
> their machines to use the whois protocol. :-)
>
> Okay... I'm blabbing now... Just sort of thought it was funny when
> everyone was saying that NSI broke the whois protocol. hehe
>
> - Shawn
>
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