Right. That's why we were returning the ".tv" stuff from our script. We'd only seen that response on .tv's before. so our script assumed that was what it was.
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark Petersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Charles Daminato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 1:44 PM Subject: Re: WHOIS Strangeness > > > I see what it is. > > For some reason I'm getting a response back from Tucows of "Can't get information on non-local domain" > > on a domain that doesn't exist. > > Yes, ignore my earlier reply. I just did some direct queries on opensrs' > whois server and it does look like they messed up in their recent > changes. Any domains that do not exist in the registry whois now return > the message "Can't get information on non-local domain..." instead of > something like "The domain doesn't exist in whois". > > % whois -h whois.opensrs.net bogus-cards.com > Can't get information on non-local domain BOGUS-CARDS.COM > % whois -h whois.opensrs.net examplelskjhksjhs.com > Can't get information on non-local domain EXAMPLELSKJHKSJHS.COM > >
