Re: Announcement: RIPE Whois Database Version 3.0beta2 released

[Peter Koch <]

> whois -h whois rpsl.ripe.net Daniele Arena
> whois: whois: Unknown host: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
> 
> Let's have a look ...
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> rpsl.ripe.net.          1d23h59m55s IN CNAME  reimp.ripe.net.
> reimp.ripe.net.         1d23h59m55s IN CNAME  orange.ripe.net.
> orange.ripe.net.        1d23h59m55s IN A  193.0.1.239
> 
> Yeah, don't do that. Don't use CNAME to CNAME. Pls fix,

There's nothing to fix here. CNAME chains are perfectly legal by the protocol.
Your client's complaining about the host name "whois" which you gave
as the argument to the -h option.

-Peter