On 10/23/06 14:33, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
Hello,
When I do whois from my FreeBSD 6-stable boxes I am receiving funny
answers.
For example when I do whois microsoft.com I get totally unrelated data.
However whois works just as expected from some linux boxes I tried.
Can anybody explain why
In the last episode (Oct 23), Evren Yurtesen said:
When I do whois from my FreeBSD 6-stable boxes I am receiving funny answers.
For example when I do whois microsoft.com I get totally unrelated
data. However whois works just as expected from some linux boxes I
tried.
Can anybody explain
The BSD whois command doesn't seem to get along well with the Verisign
whois server. You get back every domain that includes MICROSOFT.COM
in it, e.g. MICROSOFT.COM.FILLS.ME.WITH.BELLIGERENCE.NET, even if you
attempt to specify the unique name with something like
whois =MICROSOFT.COM
A
This is a side effect of the balkiization or more accurately, destruction,
of the
global whois database as a result of the fragmentation of domain name
registrations.
Registries are required to share whois data - but the requirements are
vague. And
all the registries hate each other because they
