Moderately functional whois

[Mark Milhollan <mlm () ftel net>]

Michael Dillon writes:
> On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
> > handling it intelligently at the registry level which would require no
> > action on the part of the hundreds of thousands of machines out there. 

> I believe in distributed intelligence rather than making everyone rely on
> a single central point of failure. 

[They do anyway, but I agree there's no reason to compound the problem.]

How about a little of both ...

Oh yeah, that's rwhois.  Too bad its not getting much attention.