On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:29:39AM -0500, Johannes Erdfelt wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003, Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm looking for the HOST record. For example: > > > > # whois -h whois.crsnic.net dns1.tucows.com ... > > But I no longer have related information for hosts within .ORG domains. > > Ok, that's what I originally thought you meant, but I couldn't figure out > why you wanted to make things more difficult for yourself so I assumed the > simpler explanation. > > crsnic.net is only VGRS managed TLDs: com, net and edu > > As a result, it only contains information for nameservers in those TLDs. > PIR (actually, Afilias) doesn't implement the query you're looking for. > > However, DNS is designed for exactly what you want to do.
However, DNS changes do not take effect at the same time at all root servers. Host record changes almost always show up in WHOIS before they show up in DNS. The DNS informatin is *always* unavailable for hosts within domains that have already expired. And the additional data source is good to have for sanity checking, But all of this is entirely aside from my initial question, to which I have since found an answer. For example: # whois -h whois.pir.org ho\ unhqint1.un.org -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Operations / Abuse / Whatever it.canada, hosting and development http://www.it.ca/
