Re: 'whois' no longer following referrals ?

2017-08-24 Thread Brian Inglis
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

'whois' no longer following referrals ?

2017-08-24 Thread Jay Libove
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?),