more dns weirdness

[Chris Brennan]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Paul Macdonald <paul at ifdnrg.com> wrote:

> the wider issue is that freebsd whois will use tld.whois-servers.netcnames to resolve appropriate whois servers and that
> whois-servers.net has nameservers from one sole provider (ultradns),
>  which is still having problems.
>
> I'm not overally bothered about amazons' whois, but i am concerned about
> freebsd's whois being tied to one NS provider (ultradns) which affects dig's
>

Indeed, whois on 2 freebsd boxes reports the faulty search but on my linux
box (gentoo) it worked fine.