On 7 March 2017 at 15:57, Pete Turnbull via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/03/2017 13:47, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: >> >> On Tue, 7 Mar 2017, Pete Turnbull wrote: >>> >>> No, Mouse is right, it's broken: >> >> >> Works for me (also from different networks outside the university >> network): > > > Interesting... I still get the same errors. Could it be location-dependant > in some way? Are you using the standard whois port 43/TCP?
I tested 'whois -h whois.denic.de uni-stuttgart.de' from Oslo, London, Tokyo, and it seems to work fine - I got all expected whois output. Tested yesterday too. Sounds like it may be the whois client instead - what OS are you guys using, and which 'whois' version? I'm using various Linux distros.
