whois or finger

mike

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Jan 16, 2000, 3:00:00 AM1/16/00

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How do I finger or do a whois on a foreign host. I am trying to do a whois
on compass.com.ph? Thanks, Mike

John Higdon

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Jan 21, 2000, 3:00:00 AM1/21/00

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in article sB8i4.705$pb7....@nuq-read.news.verio.net, David Kaye wrote:

> If you can get to a shell on your account, do that and then use the whois
> or finger on the command line. Note: the whois server now has very little
> info on it. I use a registry service to get more thorough info.

Ever since the old Internic whois became history, I have been using

whois -h whois.thur.de <query>

Seems to be pretty reliable in finding the correct registry.

Centaur Chiron

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Jan 21, 2000, 3:00:00 AM1/21/00

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www.samspade.org

Download the software. It's great.

I can now run EASY whois for Japan, RU and a bunch of others.

Nice and free.

On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 15:07:06 GMT, "mike" <mike76...@ricochet.net>
wrote:

David Kaye

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Jan 22, 2000, 3:00:00 AM1/22/00

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mike wrote the quoted material below:

" How do I finger or do a whois on a foreign host. I am trying to do a whois
" on compass.com.ph? Thanks, Mike

If you can get to a shell on your account, do that and then use the whois

or finger on the command line. Note: the whois server now has very little
info on it. I use a registry service to get more thorough info.

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David Kaye Benjamin Guggenheim all died aboard the Titanic
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David Kaye

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Jan 28, 2000, 3:00:00 AM1/28/00

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John Higdon wrote the quoted material below:

" whois -h whois.thur.de <query>
" Seems to be pretty reliable in finding the correct registry.

Indeed it seems good. I've added an alias to it for easy use. Thanks.

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David Kaye of Utah is the Dutch oven
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Thad Floryan

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Jan 28, 2000, 3:00:00 AM1/28/00

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David Kaye <d...@removethis.wco.com> wrote:
| John Higdon wrote the quoted material below:
|
| " whois -h whois.thur.de <query>
| " Seems to be pretty reliable in finding the correct registry.
|
| Indeed it seems good. I've added an alias to it for easy use. Thanks.

Aliases are fine for interactive shell use, but I have too many diverse
systems here and gawd-only-knows if there's some shell script(s) or batch jobs
that might use "whois", so I generally find it prudent to update software to
"do the right thing" by default.

I added "networksolutions.com" to my source code of "whois" on 3-Dec-1999 when
I first noticed a change had occurred at NSI per:

char *whois_servers[] = {
"whois.networksolutions.com",
"whois.internic.net",
NULL /* null pointer terminates the list */

"Hidden" surprises are never fun. I just found an annoying Y2K problem with
the "pcal" (PostScript calendar) program when I needed to print-out a Spanish
version (it's one of my custom mods) and it complained about the year being
"100"; usually I'd print the calendars during the prior month and so would
always specify "pcal-spanish month year" but this time I omitted the "month
year".

Here's the original code:

init_year = p_tm->tm_year;
[...]
if (init_year > 0 && init_year < 100) /* treat nn as 19nn */
init_year += 1900;

and here's the fix (which uses less code):

init_year = p_tm->tm_year + 1900;

And, no, I'm not the original author of the pcal program.

Thad

mag...@rahul.net

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On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 05:22:12 GMT, David Kaye <d...@removethis.wco.com> wrote:

>John Higdon wrote the quoted material below:
>
>" whois -h whois.thur.de <query>
>" Seems to be pretty reliable in finding the correct registry.
>
>Indeed it seems good. I've added an alias to it for easy use. Thanks.

Why go all the way to Germany?

>whois -h whois.geektools.com register.com

Registrant:
Register.com, Inc.
575 8th Avenue
11th Floor
New York, NY 10018
US

Registrar..: Register.com (http://www.register.com)
Domain Name: REGISTER.COM
Created on..............: Wed, Aug 04, 1999
Expires on..............: Fri, Aug 03, 2001
Record last updated on..: Wed, Aug 04, 1999

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Internic Free intern...@register.com
212-594-9880

Domain servers in listed order:

DNS1.REGISTER.COM 209.67.50.220
DNS2.REGISTER.COM 209.67.50.241
DNS3.REGISTER.COM 209.67.50.253
DNS4.REGISTER.COM 209.67.50.254

Register your domain name at http://www.register.com

> whois -h whois.geektools.com joker.com
Initial server used for this query: whois.corenic.net
Siegfried Langenbach (template COCO-11) CORE-11
CSL GmbH
Rathausufer 16
Duesseldorf, NRW 40213 Germany

Domain Name: joker.com
Status: production

Admin Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Siegfried Langenbach (COCO-11) in...@nrw.net
+49211867670 (FAX) +492118676710

CORE Registrar: CORE-11

Record last modified: 1999-12-29 16:12:14 MET by CORE-11
Record created: 1994-11-27 00:00:00 MET by NSI

Domain servers in listed order:

ns.nrw.net 194.176.0.14
ns2.csl-gmbh.net 194.245.101.58

Database last updated on 2000-01-28 08:41:41 MET

To optimize query speed and answer correctness see the
--help option. Depending on your whois client use
whois -h whois.corenic.net HELP
or
whois HE...@whois.corenic.net

> whois -h whois.geektools.com really.nu
Initial server used for this query: whois.nic.nu
.NU Domain Ltd Whois service

Found exact match:

Domain: really.nu
ID: 29
Status: Active
Created: 23-Jul-1997
Modified: 31-Aug-1999
Expires: 23-Jul-2000

Name servers:
ns.coiinc.com 207.40.103.4
jenni.coiinc.com 207.40.103.5

Database last loaded: 27-Jan-2000 14:19:33

Copyright by .NU Domain Ltd - http://www.nunames.nu

GeekTools WHOIS Proxy v2.2.5
Brought to you by CenterGate Research Group, LLC.
Visit us at www.centergate.com.

Etc.

There is also a simple and fast web interface available at:

<http://geektools.com/whois.html>

and you can get the source code and run it locally if you want:

<http://geektools.com/software.html>

jc