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Date: Sun 01-Oct-1991 03:23:51 From: mcarling@leland.stanford.edu (M Carling) Subject: whois (was: yet another example why NeXT's ...) In article <1991Sep30.214143.17232@milton.u.washington.edu> mrc@Panda.COM (Mark Crispin) writes: > > Try running whois on your NeXT; it broke today. It also broke on SUNs > and other vendors. You will get a nasty message about what a dinosaur > your vendor is. > I just ran whois. I worked fine. M Carling The Hoover Institution, Stanford University Director, Bay Area NeXT Group mcarling@leland.stanford.edu (NeXTmail preferred)
Date: Sun 01-Oct-1991 17:43:46 From: cmaeda+@cs.cmu.edu (Christopher Maeda) Subject: whois (was: yet another example why NeXT's PC mentality is stupid) In article <1991Oct1.021225.8441@cs.yale.edu> blenko-tom@cs.yale.edu (Tom Blenko) writes: >In article <1991Sep30.214143.17232@milton.u.washington.edu> mrc@Panda.COM (Mark Crispin) writes: ><useless diatribe deleted> >| >|Try running whois on your NeXT; it broke today. It also broke on SUNs >|and other vendors. You will get a nasty message about what a dinosaur >|your vendor is. > > whois -h nic.ddn.mil name > >Unfortunately, when I try this I get > > whois: connect: Connection refused > >which I suspect is a NIC problem. The fact that the NIC is in the process of being taken over by another firm may have something to do with this.
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