What happened to whois?

[Bill Manning]

 punt and use geektools.

 whois -h whois.geektools.net  (your request here)


% 
% Barry Margolin  <barmar at bbnplanet.com> writes:
% > 
% > I have a script of my own that
% > figures out whether I'm looking up a network (it determines whether it
% > should query ARIN, RIPE, or APNIC from the first octet) or domain.  When
% > I'm looking up a domain it has a table listing whois servers for many
% > different TLDs, and uses whois.opensrs.net for .com -- their whois server
% > queries whois.internic.net and then automatically queries the registrar's
% > server that's listed there.
% 
% Thanks for the algorithm.  I don't suppose you'd post the
% implementation?  :-)
% 
% 
% Anne.
% -- 
% Ms. Anne Bennett          anne at alcor.concordia.ca           +1 514 848-7606
% Senior Analyst,  IITS,  Concordia University,  Montreal QC,  Canada H3G 1M8
% 
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% 


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--bill