On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Alex Brecher wrote: > I am still getting "Can't get information on non-local domain" for searches > against whois.opensrs.net on domains that do not exist.
I would suggest checking whois.crsnic.net first, then use the returned "Whois Server" to query the correct authoritive whois server. If you do it this way, you will never see that message.
