On 07/03/2017 15:07, Mouse via cctalk wrote:
$ telnet whois.denic.de 43
Trying 81.91.170.6...
Connected to whois.denic.de.
Escape character is '^]'.
whois -r uni-stuttgart.de
% Error: 55000000007 Request not clearly specified
Connection closed by foreign host.
$
That's broken.
In that case, it's the query that's broken. The normal way to use
whois for domains is to send just the domain name upon connecting; the
"whois -r " prefix you used is probably responsible.
Nope, that's taken from their own documentation - and it makes no
difference which options I give it, or none. I didn't show all the
permutations I tried, both using a standard UNIX whois client, and using
telnet to port 43. It's just broken.
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Pete
Pete Turnbull
