From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 20 2: 5:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom0-125.telepath.com [216.14.0.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57C2437BDA4 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 02:05:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 56896 invoked by uid 100); 20 Jun 2000 09:05:18 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14671.13262.228386.501521@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 04:05:18 -0500 (CDT) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Offtopic: Domain registration In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 3) "Acadia" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: "Raymundo M. Vega" > Fabio Miranda wrote: > > > > Hi, i'm Fabio and this is the problem i'm facing: > > > > on feb-08 i registered a domain in Network Solutions, > > taking the basic program $35/per year, the domain is > > webcaribe.net. The same day i set up my dns server and > > i wait some days. The domain have never worked, the > > "whois" query shows : > > Domain Name: WEBCARIBE.NET > > Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC. > > Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com > > Referral URL: www.networksolutions.com > > Name Server: No nameserver > > Updated Date: 08-jun-2000 > This means that the domain is alredy registred by > Network Solutions. i think you can not use it, but > if you do the same query again you will get: Actually, it means that the registrar is Network Solutions, as opposed to one of the other registrars on the net. Depending on which version of FreeBSD you have, the "whois" command may or may not be smart enough to use the information contained in the above to dig the real whois entry up for you (basically, a whois query to the whois server run by the registrar). 4.0-RELEASE does the job properly. 3.3-RELEASE certainly doesn't. I'm not sure about 3.4-RELEASE; I added a wrapper to deal with this in mid december.