Getting hold of serial numbers

[Kevin Darcy]

Stephen Carville wrote:

>On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
>- On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 03:57:04PM -0800,
>-  Stephen Carville <stephen at totalflood.com> wrote 
>-  a message of 40 lines which said:
>- 
>- > USe whois to get a list of dns servers
>- 
>- Bad idea, the information in the DNS itself ("dig NS totalflood.com") is
>- typically more recent and more reliable.
>
>Dig did not work for the particular domain in question.  Whois may be
>less reliable as a general rule but when dig doesn't work, whois is
>better than pulling ip address out of my arse.
>  
>
Given the garbage I've seen in WHOIS over the years, I'd have to say you 
often might be better off with the nether-region option...

- Kevin