Search Again: Re: [off!] Whois From: Shawn Hogan Date: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 Time: 2:15:37 pm Aaron Lynch wrote: >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. I'm sure there are mirror servers around, but I don't know what they are off the top of my head... But you are correct, when you do a whois in your shell, the whois script on that server contacts Internic using the whois protocol (which happens to be on TCP port 43... not that anyone cares... hehe). Then it returns the results. That's all I'm having Optigold ISP do as well. BUT... I did make it so you don't have to use internic as your whois server. You can set the whois server to anything you want. So if you locate a different one you want to use, you can use that one instead. - Shawn ------------------------------- Shawn D. Hogan President, Data Point Solutions http://www.data-point.com (619) 452-3696 ICQ: 8319647 ------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe and list archive please visit http://www.data-point.com/lists -------------------------------------------

Messages In This Thread: [off!] Whois by Aaron Lynch on Mar 23, 1999 at 2:11:09 pm Re: [off!] Whois by Shawn Hogan on Mar 23, 1999 at 2:15:37 pm