Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:01:16 -0800 From: william@hq.dreamhost.com (Will Yardley) To: Gregory Hicks <ghicks> Subject: Re: Getting a Host Record
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 06:31:07PM -0800, Gregory Hicks wrote:
whois -h whois.completewhois.com dreamhost.com Elan Complete Whois Server, Version 0.83h05, compiled on Jan 27, 2003, 18:21 PDT
The original message was about getting a HOST (i.e., nameserver) record, not getting the whois record for the domain itself.
Sorry! After I sent that off, I re-read your message... (I need to read, re-read, and then again, I think...) I don't recall that I've EVER been able to get info on an individual host as you want. I've been using 'whois' since the early-mid '80s whilst I was running the Info-IBMPC Digest (it is now defunct when I got out of the military...). I used to take a FQDN host name, submit to whois, and if I got a "no such record", I'd back the host name off, then any sub-domains, then ... Until I got a match that looked 'reasonable'. Whois stopped being convenient to use about the time Network Solutions went 'commercial' (about '98 or so?). This is what I did for ns1.dreamhost.com. There used to be fully maintained 'hinfo' records in DNS, but not, I believe, in the whois database... I think the best you can do now is to get SOA for an individual host... Oh well. I'll read better next time. regards, Gregory Hicks --------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory Hicks | Principal Systems Engineer Cadence Design Systems | Direct: 408.576.3609 555 River Oaks Pkwy M/S 6B1 | Fax: 408.894.3479 San Jose, CA 95134 | Internet: ghicks@cadence.com Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by ignorance or stupidity. Asking the wrong questions is the leading cause of wrong answers "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." --Alexander Hamilton Just because "We've always done it that way" is not necessarily a good reason to continue to do so... Grace Hopper, Rear Admiral, United States Navy