whois, broken

I'm surprised to not see this already posted. Or is it just me?... but whois from the command line seems busted. Looks like a change on verisign's end broke it. Anybody with an idea for a fix? It only seems broken for .coms. Here is the error:

elden@macmini [~] > whois moondog.com
whois: com.whois-servers.net: No address associated with nodename

Posted on Sep 29, 2005 9:51 PM

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Sep 30, 2005 5:00 AM in response to Elden

Hi Eldon,
No, it's not broken, only yours is. Here's the part of the output I get for moondog that isn't legal disclaimers:<PRE>
Domain Name: MOONDOG.COM
Registrar: GO DADDY SOFTWARE, INC.
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
Name Server: NS2.BBSWORLD.COM
Name Server: NS1.RELAYNET.ORG
Name Server: NS2.ZEPPOLE.COM
Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
Updated Date: 13-apr-2005
Creation Date: 24-may-1994
Expiration Date: 23-may-2006

Registrant:
MoonDog BBS
1575 East 34 Street
Brooklyn, New York 11234
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com
Domain Name: MOONDOG.COM
Created on: 24-May-94
Expires on: 23-May-06
Last Updated on: 13-Apr-05

Administrative Contact:
Barba, Don sysop@moondog.com
1575 East 34 Street
Brooklyn, New York 11234
United States
(718) 338-1932 Fax --
Technical Contact:
Barba, Don drbarba@relaynet.org
1575 East 34 Street
Brooklyn, New York 11234
United States
(718) 338-1932 Fax --

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.RELAYNET.ORG
NS2.ZEPPOLE.COM
NS2.BBSWORLD.COM
</PRE>
Try the command:

nslookup -sil com.whois-servers.net

If that doesn't resolve then the problem is your DNS servers. That appears to be an alias for whois.verisign-grs.com. If that resolves, see if you can configure your "whois" to use that instead.
--
Gary
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Sep 30, 2005 9:00 PM in response to Gary Kerbaugh

Try the command:
nslookup -sil com.whois-servers.net
If that doesn't resolve then the problem is your DNS servers. That appears to be an alias for whois.verisign-grs.com. If that resolves, see if you can configure your "whois" to use that instead.


elden@macmini [~] > host com.whois-servers.net
Host com.whois-servers.net not found: 2(SERVFAIL)

Hrm, guess I could setup my own caching name server and see if that solves the problem.

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