From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 28 23:10: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from morpheus.oss.uswest.net (morpheus.oss.uswest.net [216.160.46.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E631537B417 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:10:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 18671 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Mar 2002 07:10:01 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO morpheus.oss.uswest.net) (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Mar 2002 07:10:01 -0000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Paul C. Boyle" Cc: djcain@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spam help. Need Master Yoda. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Mar 2002 00:41:28 EST." <200203010540.AAA12979@alpha.vaxxine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 01:10:01 -0600 Message-ID: <18669.1014966601@morpheus.oss.uswest.net> From: "Daniel J Cain Jr." Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You are being too specific in your whois query. Try it against ionet.net, whois is a database listing domains, you are asking it to tell you about a host within a domain. Even if the query in question was a sub-domain, the whois database only knows where to start. A great book is DNS and BIND, currently 4th edition, from O'Reilly. Check their web site for a 30 day free trial of safari.oreilly.com their online book library (540+ titles). I read the 3rd edition in print and that shed a lot of light on the whole DNS thing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message