Whois and godaddy domains

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Sat Jun 9 19:30:11 UTC 2007


At 12:33 PM -0500 6/9/07, Steven Stern wrote:

>When I use whois from Cygwin on my windows machine, it returns the full
>set of contact information for my domain.  When I run whois from fedora,
>it doesn't. It appears that the fedora version does not contact
>whois.godaddy.com to get the additional information.  Is this controlled
>by a config file somewhere?

Yes, /etc/jwhois.conf.  Once the verisign clause was missing; it might be
your problem too:

At 10:35 AM +0000 11/9/06, Paul Howarth wrote:

>This looks like a regression. Add the following clause to the
>server-options section of /etc/jwhois.conf:
>
>	"whois\\.verisign-grs\\.com" {
>		whois-redirect = ".*Whois Server: \\(.*\\)";
>	}
>
>That'll fix it.
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