On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:14:18AM -0700, wxWeb.com wrote:
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> Tuesday, May 21, 2002, 8:00:40 AM, I-Tequenology wrote:
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> > That does not give you the NSI 'handle'.
>
> > We also need to update the IP assocaited with our Name Servers for the
> > dwindling domains that customers have at NSI. And to complete that chnage -
> > we need the NSI NameServer Handle.
>
> So look it up at NSI :)
>
> whois "host ns1.domain.com"@whois.networksolutions.com
Nice try, but no. They've taken down their host lookup functions
indefinitely. The Veridrones say they can do lookups on an individual
basis for the owners of the domains in which the hosts live, and I was
told yesterday that I'd get a call back by the end of the week from a
supervisor who would be able to tell me approximately how long this
outage would last. (The Veridrone did at least offer to escalate my
request to find out why it was going to take so long to get a call back
that would tell me why it was going to take so long to get the host
data, but the irony was completely lost on her.)
Interestingly, you can still look things up by handle name. I can still:
whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ho\ net3-hst
but that of course is useless without lookups the other way. The other
thing they've taken down is the "dump" format which you could get by
prefixing "DUmp" to the beginning of your lookup. It gave results in a
much-more-easily-machine-parsed format. I guess Verisign has finally
decided to act a little more consistently, and is crippling its whois
service to match its crippled customer service.
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