NSI again removes services

Wed Oct 20 21:14:12 UTC 1999

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Greg A. Woods wrote:

 | I think the inventor of fwhois should have nasty things done to the
 | arguments of every command he ever types again!
 | 

The fact that several widely used Linux distributions still have this
ancient, broken program that I cobbled together from old finger source code
nearly 8 years ago should speak for itself ;)

 | You can still get the *real* whois client from most any *BSD, or from
 | the InterNIC ftp site.  You can also find the much more advanced RIPE
 | version too (of which a slightly modified version is now in
 | NetBSD-current too).
 | 
 | 	ftp://rs.internic.net/netprog/whois.c
 | 	ftp://ftp.ripe.net/tools/ripe-whois-tools-2.4.tar.gz
 | 
 | However wouldn't just quoting the so-called "domain" portion make a
 | multi-word query like that work with fwhois?

Yes