wierd whois problem

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 14:54 -0500, John Aldrich wrote:
> I just upgraded from FC3 to FC6. Under FC3, whenever I wanted to know who the 
> registrar for a particular domain was, I'd just pull up a shell prompt and 
> type "whois <domain.tld>" and it would automagically look up the proper 
> registrar from Netsol/Verisign and forward the request on to the proper 
> registrar. 
> 
> Now, under FC6, I have to do a whois and then scroll back up through all the 
> disclaimers and then re-do the query on the proper reigstrar. What changed 
> and how do I fix it so that it goes back to the "proper" behavior?

It's working for me. My whois client is /usr/bin/whois, from the jwhois
package.

Could you give an example of a domain you've tried and the information
you expected to get back in one go but didn't?

Paul.