Re: Duplicate and conflicting NIC Handles

["Edward S. Marshall" <emarshal () logic net>]

On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Sean Donelan wrote:
> Well, it looks like we have yet another WHOIS database, whois.nic.gov.
> The problem is the creators didn't remembered the lessons from previous
> WHOIS databases, namely they've created duplicate conflicting NIC Handles.

They also have bugs:

$ whois @whois.nic.gov
[nic.gov]
Segmentation Fault - core dumped

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