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From: brunner@sri-spam.istc.sri.com (Thomas Eric Brunner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: What mode should `whois' be?
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Date: Sun, 7-Dec-86 02:17:15 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  7 02:17:15 1986
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>>whois: bind: Permission denied

>You also realize, I hope, that by default it is trying to make an
>ARPAnet link across to SRI-NIC, so you'll have to be able to route
>there (or specify a local server via -h on the command line.)

Note too that whois occasionally fails, even when one is only tens of
meters "remote" from SRI-NIC, try more than once, or twice, or ...

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Cheers!
/teb