[ale] whois

[anewton at ecotroph.net (Andrew Newton)]

The whois tool that comes with Mandrake is usually pretty good, though 
sometimes it has problems.  www.completewhois.com is also a pretty good 
tool.

Incidently, the IETF has chartered a new working group to deal with this 
problem (http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/crisp-charter.html).

-andy


Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> 
> Anyone know of a better "whois" database?
> 
> 
> Using a shell command, I reach crsnic.net, which has no match
> for the offending URL.
> 
> 
> The only other source I know is <http://combat.UXN.com> and
> they report this morning:
> 
> 
> 
>>Aug 26, 2002, ARIN has changed its format, the proram I use can not 
>>recognize it. Since ARIN is used to find delegations to other regional 
>>registries all lookups will fail. Sorry 


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