i complained to hostmaster@internic.net about this a few nights ago, but by the time they got around to replying to my mail, it had been fixed. judging from the response, i think it's more likely that they're having problems with the feature than killing it. Jeffrey Haas wrote:

Has anyone else noted that "whois server <handle>" no longer seems to be working at the InterNIC?

-- Jeffrey Haas "Denial of Spamming is not a crime." elezar@pfrc.org -- Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>

-- nicholas harteau nrh@sfx.com