Note that, afaik, PIR is planning on transitioning .org to a thick registry in the relatively near future, and all the current infrastructure (whois, etc) at Afilias works with a thick model, so what they have in place is likely preliminary (and quicker than re-doing their whois)
-- Charles Daminato Life is not holding a good hand; OpenSRS Product Manager Life is playing a poor hand well. Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Danish proverb > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Weinman > Sent: January 28, 2003 12:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: FYI: bw-whois updated for .org > > > I know that many of you are using my BW Whois on your sites. > > I have just released BW Whois version 3.4. The major change is > that it now > works with the .org registry. > > The .ORG whois server at whois.publicinterestregistry.net is a > "thin" whois > server that refers requests to another whois server (e.g., > whois.opensrs.net), in much the same manner as the .COM/.NET thin > server at > whois.crsnic.net. Instead of copying the format of a working thin server > (e.g., whois.crsnic.net), the folks at Afilias chose to implement > their own > new format (which is both unnecessary and dysfunctional). As if that > weren't enough of a wrench-in-the-works, they chose to use bare CR (\x0D) > for line-endings. > > My whois software was smart enough to know that they were making > referrals, > but alas it broke down on the line-endings. That is fixed in the > 3.4 version. > > Download here: [http://whois.bw.org/] > > --Bill > > > > ->-- > Bill Weinman <http://bw.org/> > Music Database <http://www.webmusicdb.com/> > Music <http://music.bw.org/> > Whois Client <http://whois.bw.org> > ->-+ > >
