Re: Here we go again...

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () scfn thpl lib fl us>]

On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 01:13:21AM -0500, Steve Sobol wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 26, 1997 at 07:19:06PM -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > I guess whois is broken again, at least partially...  I was hunting the
> > HylaFax home page, and went off to whois(1) 'tpc.int'... who aren't
> > listed.  There isn't something I should know, is there?
>
> The int TLD is not handled by the InterNIC, it's handled by USC-ISI,
> as revealed by a query of InterNIC's servers.

Aha!  Hadn't even thought about that...

> But you can't do a whois of tpc.int using nii.isi.edu, the whois server
> that you use to do whois queries on .US subdomains. 

Indeed?

> Perhaps you should ask ISI why they don't provide whois info, or perhaps
> you can ask who does??

That would be a Bill Manning question, wouldn't it?

Cheers,
-- jra
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