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From: James FitzGibbon <james@nexis.net>
To: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: port of ripe's extended whois client.
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On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, J Wunsch wrote:

> > Nope, that's the referral whois server (distributed whois) that I did last
> > week.  RIPE whois is (from what I understand) a whois server that queries
> > the RIPE database (European registrar, right ?)
> 
> Curious, is this just the same as typing ``whois -h whois.ripe.net''?
> In this case, it would be a little silly to have an extra program for
> it.

RIPE also stores some extra info in it's database that ripewhois knows how
to display.  I think the maintainer mentioned something about this when I
first brought it in.

--
j.