Re: NIC database/whois

[Charles Sprickman <spork () inch com>]

On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Andrew Brown wrote:

> that's neat, but it's not terribly useful with more than a handful of
> zones.  internic now terminates all whois queries at 50 records.
> otoh, the telnet interface will show you five and then offer you all
> the others.  so...

And they terminate this one at 256 I guess:

Whois: server FOO-HST
Aborting search 256 records found .....                    

Charles

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> telnet whois.internic.net
> whois my.name.server
> server nic-handleformyserver