Subject: RE: whois?

From: "Gentzler, Eric" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:33:44 -0500

Network Solutions, had a stroke of mind power and decided to
change the server output format on 12/01.  Don't you just love
how out of the six fields listed that three of them are advertisements
for Network Solutions?  Like we need to have their URL listed.

Use the Geektools whois database instead.

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert G. Ferrell [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 1:14 PM
To: [email-masked]; [email-masked]
Subject: Re: whois?

>I'm just wondering -- my whois command doesn't turn up contact information
>for domains anymore. What's going on? I get a registrar's name instead ....

NSI changed WHOIS servers on 1 December.  Use

whois -h whois.networksolutions.com

Robert G. Ferrell
Internet Technologist
National Business Center, US DoI
[email-masked]