Whois server in Canada?

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2 total messages Started by Francois Yergeau Tue, 22 Sep 1992 01:15

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Author: Francois Yergeau
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1992 01:15

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Good day everyone,

I have a frequent need these days to use the 'whois' command to resolve
Internet host names to meaningful site names.  However, the 'whois'
command in my Unix box interrogates the NIC in the U.S., whose answer
is most often 'No match for "BLAHBLAH.CA"' when the site is in Canada.

Hence the question, is there a whois server in Canada I can access?  Or
at least a list of sites I could get by anon. ftp?  I don't know
anything about CA*NET, except for my guess that it's the canadian
portion of the Internet, so please bear with me if this question is
inappropriate for this group.

E-mail preferred, but feel free to post if you want.  I will summarize
if there's interest.  Thanks in advance.

-- 
Francois Yergeau (yergeau@phy.ulaval.ca) |  De gustibus et coloribus
Centre d'Optique, Photonique et Laser    |  non disputandum
Departement de Physique                  |          -proverbe scolastique
Universite Laval, Ste-Foy, QC, Canada    |

Re: Whois server in Canada?

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Author: Francois Yergeau
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1992 20:20

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First off, my sincere apologies to everyone reading this group for
having posted the same request twice in a four day interval.  Why did I
do such a stupid thing?  Well, after waiting four days, and seeing
neither my own post nor any reply in the newsgroup, I figured my
article had gone off to somewhere in cyberspace, so I posted again.
Only to find my _first_ article and a reply in the newsgroup a couple
of hours later, quickly followed by another reply that was actually
posted before the first one I received.  Yes, our newsfeed is
incredibly slow, and I'm going to contact the newsadmin about this, as
the situation is getting to be embarrassing.  It's not normal for an
article to take close to four days to travel from Toronto (the
moderator's home base) to Quebec.

Anyway, thanks for your tolerance of my mistake, and thanks for the
replies too!  They were not quite what I was hoping for, but were
nevertheless helpful.  It's a pity that there is no whois server for
Canada, or the "distributed directory service" that John Demco
mentionned.  What's the latter exactly?  Is there such a project in the
works?

Apologetically yours,

-- 
Francois Yergeau (yergeau@phy.ulaval.ca) |  De gustibus et coloribus
Centre d'Optique, Photonique et Laser    |  non disputandum
Departement de Physique                  |          -proverbe scolastique
Universite Laval, Ste-Foy, QC, Canada    |

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