Subject: Re: whois default host
To: NetBSD Userlevel Technical Discussion List <tech-userlevel@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/30/2001 03:27:53
[ On Sunday, January 28, 2001 at 22:33:11 ( +0100), Ignatios Souvatzis wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: whois default host
>
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 03:07:53PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > [ On , January 28, 2001 at 15:23:53 ( +0100), Johan Danielsson wrote: ]
> > > Subject: Re: whois default host
> > >
> > > woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods) writes:
> > > 
> > > > 	http://www.linux.it/~md/software/whois_4.5.2.tar.gz
> > > 
> > > Yes, but GPL.
> > 
> > Oh, sorry, I hadn't noticed.
> > 
> > But, since it's not a critical system tool it might not be so bad to add
> > it to NetBSD despite the goals of getting rid of GNU stuff....
> 
> what about whois -h whois.thur.de ?

Any "proxy" solution/service is far less than optimal (though it does
help eliminate certian maintenance issues).

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