Re: whois

[Network Operations Center <noc () nwrain net>]

        Hello All,  Mr. Chuck Gomes -just- announced that whois.arin.net
        is now the authority for in-addr & asn's & .... 
        But, NOT .com .net .org .edu

                                        Hth, JimL
On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Jon Lewis wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Jared Mauch wrote:
>
> >     Try whois -h whois.arin.net 38
> >
> >     or whois 38 () whois arin net if you use fwhois
> >
> > On a dark and stormy night, Bill Becker said:
> > > Have i Missed Something or is whois broke today?
>
> I thought about posting earlier...but decided it wasn't operational
> enough.  Now that someone else has broken the ice...whois
> is hosed...the root servers are using old data.  Things like:
>
> whois "server KASHM-HST"
>
> don't work today.  I got a call this morning from an ex-customer who moved
> several domains last week.  Today, they mysteriously moved back to
> us...both in whois and the root servers.
>
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