On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Vince Sabio wrote:
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> Are we somehow getting bogged down in minutia and failing to see that
"Minutia" is important too :)
Vince seems to be talking about telnet access directly to
a restricted shell on rs.internic.net that provided access to
the "whois" command there. Apparently this telnet access is being
discontinued (probably a good idea for security reasons).
Ron and Mitch may be thinking of using the "whois" command
from their local machines (desk or servers) to access the remote whois
database server via port 43 (a service that still seems to be there).
whois gives much more info about the domain owner than
does nslookup or dig.
whois also gives access to the "contact" database which can be
searched for "handles" such as RNH or JB3243 (guess which
has been in the db longer? :)
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