Ian was propably talking about jwhois which is part of almost all Linux distibutions. This whois client "automagically" selects the correct whois server for you. It comes with a configuration file with lots of known tld => whois server pairs. For .com/.net domains it selects the whois server by first asking whois.internic.net.
Maybe you should give it a try Ciao Torsten Am Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:59:25 +0100 schrieb Sten Carlsen <st...@s-carlsen.dk>: > Hi > > Yes, I do use whois, my problem is which of the many dozens of whois > servers to ask. > > E.g. if you want to know who owns telephone.com(random example), do > you ask whois.moniker.com, whois.markmonitor.com, whois.enum.com > or ???. > > If you don't know who to ask, it can take maybe 20 attempts before you > find a whois server tha gives some helpful info. In some cases looking > at the NS records helps > > Somebody put up the whois.uwhois.net, but that rarely gives an answer. > > How do you determine where to ask? > > > On 11/11/10 4:07, Ian Manners wrote: > > Hi Sten, > > > >> With the growing number of registrars of e.g. .com domains, it > >> becomes difficult or even almost impossible to figure out which > >> whois server you should ask for information about a domain name. > > Use Whois (first under the 'Other software:' heading) from > > the command prompt. > > > > <http://www.linux.it/~md/software/> > > > > Even compiles ok under OS/2. > > > > Cheers > > Ian Manners > > http://www.os2site.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > bind-users mailing list > > bind-users@lists.isc.org > > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users > _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
