Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:05:58 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: whois weirdness... Message-ID: <20061023200557.GB53901@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <453D191B.4000003@ispro.net> References: <453D191B.4000003@ispro.net>
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In the last episode (Oct 23), Evren Yurtesen said: > When I do whois from my FreeBSD 6-stable boxes I am receiving funny answers. > > For example when I do whois microsoft.com I get totally unrelated > data. However whois works just as expected from some linux boxes I > tried. > > Can anybody explain why this is happening? "whois microsoft.com" actually prints more unrelated data on a Debian box than a FreeBSD one (Debian drills into each match where FreeBSD just lists them one per line). If you don't want a substring match, prepend your query with an "=": whois "=microsoft.com" -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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