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> Getting on to the question, I ran the command and got the same output
> they did.  However, while chatting with someone else who also ran the
> command, they got something totally different.  Something more like what

> you'd expect from a whois command.  Their results turned up the owner
> & registrar of microsoft.com as well as all contact info, addresses, DNS

> servers, etc.

> The one thing I noticed was that we had querried 2 different servers.  I

> hit the same one that Maxium Linux did (whois.crsnic.com) but, the other

> person was hitting the actual whois.networksolutions.com server.  Is
> there something I'm missing as far as how to determine which whois
> server is contacted?  Some config file I need to modify?

> Greetings everyone.

> This is not necessarily a question directly related to UNIX, but I
> thought I might find some info here.

> I was browsing through some Linux sites and came to maximumlinux.com
> where they had a link that showed  a screenshot of a whois querry on
> microsoft.com.  If you'd like to see what they had, you can go here:

> http://www.maximumlinux.com/news/headlines/whois2.html

> Getting on to the question, I ran the command and got the same output
> they did.  However, while chatting with someone else who also ran the
> command, they got something totally different.  Something more like
> what
> you'd expect from a whois command.  Their results turned up the owner
> & registrar of microsoft.com as well as all contact info, addresses,
> DNS
> servers, etc.

> The one thing I noticed was that we had querried 2 different servers.
> I
> hit the same one that Maxium Linux did (whois.crsnic.com) but, the
> other
> person was hitting the actual whois.networksolutions.com server.  Is
> there something I'm missing as far as how to determine which whois
> server is contacted?  Some config file I need to modify?

> Thanks all in advance.

> --
> Andy
> The power of computing is amplified by penguins.  :)

> >Hi Joe & thanks for the quick reply.

> >I tried looking at a manpage for it but, RH 6.2 doesn't have a manual
> >entry for it.  I
> >attempted the '-h' argument you mentioned, but it doesn't use it.
> >Currently, I'm
> >scratching through the net for some sort of tutorial.  Any additional
> >suggestions from
> >anyone would be great.

> If it doesn't have a -h option, then it probably uses the syntax "whois

> --

> Genuity, Burlington, MA
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> I tried looking at a manpage for it but, RH 6.2 doesn't have a manual
> entry for it.  I attempted the '-h' argument you mentioned, but it
> doesn't use it. Currently, I'm scratching through the net for some
> sort of tutorial.  Any additional suggestions from anyone would be great.