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From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
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Subject: Re: bin/142507: Whois -d option
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The following reply was made to PR bin/142507; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To: Dan Mahoney <danm@prime.gushi.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/142507: Whois -d option
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:40:41 +1100

 On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 07:25:04PM -0500, Dan Mahoney wrote:
 > >Description:
 > Whois includes the -d option to query the DOD database at
 > whois.nic.mil.  The database is no longer in DNS and AFAICT no
 > longer exists.
 
 Same with .gov:
 
 [~] edwin@k7>whois nih.gov
 whois: gov.whois-servers.net: Non-recoverable failure in name resolution
 
 According to other mailinglists, the whois servers for .gov also
 don't exist anymore.
 
 Edwin
 
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