On 2017-08-24 04:46, Jay Libove wrote: > Once upon a time, the UNIX/cygwin ‘whois’ program would follow referrals. > So, you could ask, for nearly any domain, ‘whois name.domain’ 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 doesn’t do this anymore ☹ > Example below. > There’s 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 -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple