Yes, Mac OSX has a whois client in Network Utility, but it's crap. On 12/21/06, Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote:
From owner-nanog@merit.edu Wed Dec 20 21:49:49 2006 Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:48:06 -0500 Subject: Re: today's Wash Post Business section
At 19:31 -0800 12/20/06, Thomas Leavitt wrote:
Many people don't understand anything about how they access the Internet, they have a vague idea that they need to type a domain name into a box somewhere... so they type www.myspace.com into the Google search box, the result set pops up, and then they click on the first result to get to the web site in question... I've seen it more than once.
Thomas
Yeah, granted anyone looking for myspace might meet that demographic, but how many neophytes would use Google for a "IP Who Is" "search"? That's the listing I thought odd.
Does MS-Windows come with a 'whois' client? Does MacOS come with a 'whois' client?
How many people have a search engine as their 'home page' in their web browser?
How many end-user types _don't_know_ about anything other than a web-browser/ mail-client for Internet access?
With the 'forced education' most people get with regard to spam recieved in their mailbox, it's not suprising that the masses are using the tools they 'know how to use' to check up on things.