From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: 'whois' no longer following referrals ?
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:37:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51d26163-b80a-e851-9b01-0cd83cb1acba@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CO2PR0501MB886ABE150535890F9D50108CB9A0@CO2PR0501MB886.namprd05.prod.outlook.com>
On 2017-08-24 04:46, Jay Libove wrote:
> Once upon a time, the UNIX/cygwin âwhoisâ program would follow referrals.
> So, you could ask, for nearly any domain, âwhois name.domainâ and whois would
> first find out which whois server could answer the question, and then would
> query that whois server and get the answer.
> Lately (months? more?), it doesnât do this anymore â¹
> Example below.
> Thereâs even an option (still) in whois to NOT follow referrals ("-r turn
> off recursive look-ups for contact information").
> Now, we need to manually run a second whois, using the -h HOST option,
> supplying it the output of the initial whois command's "Registrar WHOIS
> Server" field.
That was the problem - it used to be just "Whois Server".
> Is this Just The way It Is now? Or is there an option I'm missing - or a
> replacement whois program - which still does the recursion automatically?
> (I'm on Windows 10 64-bit, "Creators" update, with Cygwin installer 2.881
> 64-bit, whois package version 5.2.10-1).
Verisign/Network Solutions format change - fixed a month ago - package needs
updated from 5.2.10 (2 years old) to 5.2.18:
https://github.com/rfc1036/whois/issues/54
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