Announcement: RIPE Whois Database Version 3.0beta2 released
Maxim Shchetynin maxim at ripe.net
Fri Jan 19 15:42:42 CET 2001
Peter Koch wrote:
>
> > whois -h whois rpsl.ripe.net Daniele Arena
> > whois: whois: Unknown host: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Try also
whois -h whois.ripe.net ...
^^^^^^^^
> > Let's have a look ...
> >
> > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> > rpsl.ripe.net. 1d23h59m55s IN CNAME reimp.ripe.net.
> > reimp.ripe.net. 1d23h59m55s IN CNAME orange.ripe.net.
> > orange.ripe.net. 1d23h59m55s IN A 193.0.1.239
> >
> > Yeah, don't do that. Don't use CNAME to CNAME. Pls fix,
>
> There's nothing to fix here. CNAME chains are perfectly legal by the protocol.
> Your client's complaining about the host name "whois" which you gave
> as the argument to the -h option.
>
> -Peter
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