From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 7 11:08:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A59816A4CF for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 11:08:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.egation.com (frhemail.colo.egation.com [216.218.216.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E6C943D2F for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 11:08:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@mail.egation.com) Received: (qmail 60059 invoked by uid 0); 7 Apr 2004 18:07:00 -0000 Received: from david@mail.egation.com by egation.com by uid 0 with qmail-scanner-1.20 (clamuko: 0.65. uvscan: v4.3.20/v4319. Clear:RC:1(66.220.15.53):. Processed in 0.018374 secs); 07 Apr 2004 18:07:00 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: david@mail.egation.com via egation.com X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.20 (Clear:RC:1(66.220.15.53):. Processed in 0.018374 secs) Received: from frecnocpc2.noc.egation.com (66.220.15.53) by frhemail.colo.egation.com with SMTP; 7 Apr 2004 18:07:00 -0000 Received: from frecnocpc2.noc.egation.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i37I70ik049893 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 11:07:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@frecnocpc2.noc.egation.com) Received: (from david@localhost)i37I6x3b049892 for isp@freebsd.org; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 11:06:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 11:06:59 -0700 From: David Wolfskill To: isp@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040407180659.GB47983@frecnocpc2.noc.egation.com> References: <20040407160825.GA44406@ns2.wananchi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040407160825.GA44406@ns2.wananchi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: WHOIS Server X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 18:08:06 -0000 On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 07:08:25PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: >Hello people, > >I am lost as to where to do whois queries these days. It seems that >every TLD extension has been assigned to some particular registrar (or >what do I call it?) >What is the sane way of doing whois for "any" domain extension >(.com/.org/.biz, etc)? I don't seem to have a problem merely using the "whois" included as part of FreeBSD. (Back when LACNIC started being used more often, the FreeBSD-supplied program didn't have support to use it implicitly, as it did for RIPE, so I cobbled up a patch & submitted a PR....) If you're having a problem using the "whois" program, perhaps identifying that problem would help. >.... Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david@egation.com